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Product category: Test Accessories
News Release from: Antares Advanced Test Technologies | Subject: ISocket
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 February 2008

Thermal management makes burn-in more
accurate

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Intelligent socket integrates heater, heatsink and thermal sensor, which calculates the precise amount of heat, or cooling, needed to maintain a device at a programmed temperature.

Antares iSocket thermal-management technology has been used at an IC test lab in Silicon Valley to allow semiconductor engineers in the region to conduct off-site qualification burn-in of 50W devices and below with individual DUT-level temperature controls "Chipmakers and fabless companies are generally unable to deliver accurate burn-in data to customers when devices that experience varied thermal dissipation and power fluctuations - due largely to shrinking wafer-fab architecture and related current leakage - are qualified in a burn-in chamber with variable ambient temperatures", says Chris Lopez, Antares' Manager of Thermal Solutions