What is Probe card?

A fixture that presses many needles (probes) onto chip electrodes on the wafer to connect them electrically to a tester.

Field: Testing and inspection

Probe card in the explanations

Questions that mention Probe card (3)

  1. Which correctly describes a probe card?
  2. In wafer testing, where on the chip do the probe card needles make contact?
  3. Which correctly describes wafer test (probe test)?

Related terms

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

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