Test and Repair of Nonvolatile Commodity and Embedded Memories
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Introduction Semiconductor memory market has been driven by DRAM. However non-volatile memory market, Flash memory as a representative, is growing remarkably because of its versatile application market such as cellular phone, PC memory card, silicon audio, digital still camera storage, automobile application with MCU and so forth. In terms of testing, it is quite different from DRAM. This will describe the differences, requirements and solution of Flash memory testing from viewpoint of ATE.
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