Understanding the effectiveness of their production tests is a critical task for IC suppliers. Numerous trends suggesting that conventionally applied test methods must change to meet future needs will make the task even more critical – and difficult – in the future. This paper presents characterization and diagnostic data and ideas aimed at helping IC suppliers understand test effectiveness.

Santa Barbara Infrared is working with TNO Human Factors Research Institute to develop the equipment and procedures necessary for a new standardized test method for characterizing electro-optical system performance. This method called Triangle Orientation Discrimination (TOD), offers a statistically more accurate and less subjective method of characterizing electro-optical system performance. T...