Watch how we probe the silicon of a chip and do laser drilling of a silicon die. A lot of information about why and how to probe silicon. Thank you very much John McMaster.

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Chapters:
00:00 What is this video about
00:18 Why to probe silicon?
04:39 How is the silicon probed? How does the probe look?
09:06 Probe needles
10:49 About probing silicon
17:36 How to remove package
20:36 Probing and broken bond wires
24:12 Probing to read firmware, bypassing on chip fuses
29:37 What microscope to use to probe chips
40:21 Material the probes are made from
41:35 How to know where to probe the silicon
51:46 Why / how wafer test
59:31 About John and his work
1:04:56 More about probes
1:08:46 Probe cards
1:12:33 Wafer probers / testers
1:18:26 Wafer storage
1:22:13 Optical probing
1:25:34 Alignment
1:28:00 Wafers aren't flat
1:30:13 Probe holders Micro positioners
1:37:19 About extracting firmware from 80C51
1:42:15 Hans on micro probing class
1:44:16 Live chip probing
1:47:55 Live: Preparing the probe
1:52:41 Live: Putting the probe on silicon
2:00:34 Live: Laser drilling to silicon


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