Today my colleague and I got the opportunity to visit the company’s production floor in the afternoon. I requested this tour to the production floor few months ago as I wanted to understand the flows at the plant so that I could relate them to my working project. And, recently my team leader received the approval from some respective parties. Therefore, we journeyed happily to the production floor.
The pre-requisite to enter the production floor was to dress in a smock
*pokes the Dooodl! on the right sidebar*
That’s me in the full-suit with a mask and shoes provided by our tour guide, Miss Jenny. I looked so funny in the smock.
So, we were brought to witness the full process of wafer testing. A wafer is a plate that contains many, many electronic dies on top and wafer testing means the act of testing the dies on the wafer for functional defects before they can be further used to manufacture the real product (i.e. chip in flash memory, camera, etc.). I managed to see how a lot of wafers was first being sent by a customer, which will then be unpacked, examined and sent to machines for testing by test engineers.
The whole tour lasted 1.5 hours. I quickly undressed the smock as soon as I came out of the room. Ahh.. fresh air! Both of us were very satisfied with the tour. We asked many questions. I am now able to relate my programs with the real production flows :-)
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