What is Burn-in?

A test that operates products under stress such as high temperature and high voltage to remove units prone to early failure before shipment.

Field: Testing and inspection

Burn-in in the explanations

Questions that mention Burn-in (5)

  1. Which correctly describes the purpose of burn-in?
  2. Which is a characteristic of an OLED (organic EL) display?
  3. Which is a characteristic of micro-LED displays?
  4. Which correctly describes the typical test flow of semiconductor products?
  5. Which correctly lists the three periods that make up the bathtub curve, showing how failure rate changes over time?

Related terms

Bathtub curve Yield Wafer test (probe test) ATE (automatic test equipment) ATPG (automatic test pattern generation) BIST (built-in self-test) DFT (design for testability) Fault coverage IDDQ test KGD (known good die)

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