{"title":"Pulsed Infra-Red Microscopy for Debugging Latch-Up on CMOS Products","authors":"N. Khurana","doi":"10.1109/IRPS.1984.362029","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A Near Infra Red Microscope has been used to debug latch-up problems on CMOS products. The microscope is used to image the recombination radiaton emitted by the forward biased junctions in SCR latch-up. If latchup occurrs at one location it will spread like a cancer untill several sites have latched up. This causes the traditional heat sensing techniques to give incorrect results. Techniques were developed to view and understand the mechanisms which cause latch-up spreading. Various kinds of I/O latch-up modes have been studied and described.","PeriodicalId":326004,"journal":{"name":"22nd International Reliability Physics Symposium","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1984-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"27","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"22nd International Reliability Physics Symposium","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IRPS.1984.362029","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A Near Infra Red Microscope has been used to debug latch-up problems on CMOS products. The microscope is used to image the recombination radiaton emitted by the forward biased junctions in SCR latch-up. If latchup occurrs at one location it will spread like a cancer untill several sites have latched up. This causes the traditional heat sensing techniques to give incorrect results. Techniques were developed to view and understand the mechanisms which cause latch-up spreading. Various kinds of I/O latch-up modes have been studied and described.