摘要:
A method and apparatus is provided for producing single width barcodes in a continuous, serpentine pattern. This pattern provides continuity of operation for laser marking instruments and thereby results in the formation of more uniform and higher quality barcode indicia. The use of a continuous serpentine pattern also increases the speed at which the code may be written onto a substrate. This marking method is particularly appropriate for use in marking a wide variety of materials including semiconductors, metals, plastics and ceramics.
摘要:
A single width bidirectional bar code exhibiting inherent self clocking characteristics is provided so as to be particularly useful in the identification of semiconductor wafers in very large scale integrated circuit manufacturing processes. The codes described herein are robust, reliable and highly readable even in the face of relatively high variations in scanning speed. The codes are also desirably dense in terms of character representations per linear measurements, an important consideration in semiconductor manufacturing wherein space on chips and wafers is at a premium. Additionally, a preferred embodiment of the present invention exhibits a minimum number for the maximum number of spaces between adjacent bars in code symbol sequences.
摘要:
A single width bidirectional bar code exhibiting inherent self clocking characteristics is provided so as to be particularly useful in the identification of semiconductor wafers in very large scale integrated circuit manufacturing processes. The codes described herein are robust, reliable and highly readable even in the face of relatively high variations in scanning speed. The codes are also desirably dense in terms of character representations per linear measurements, an important consideration in semiconductor manufacturing wherein space on chips and wafers is at a premium. Additionally, a preferred embodiment of the present invention exhibits a minimum number for the maximum number of spaces between adjacent bars in code symbol sequences.
摘要:
Swapping of physical bits between different logical words of a memory (40) is accomplished by reference to data (46) on bad bits in the memory. Different permutation data (34) are selected to control address inputs to each bit position (12i) in a memory word so that any word with multiple uncorrectable data is changed to a correctable logical data word by placing one or more of the bad bits in the original word into another word of the memory. The swapping is done by an exclusionary process (48) which identifies and deselects certain deleterious potential combinations of actual addresses thereby limiting the selection process to ohter combinations. The process can involve categorizing (44) of failures in accordance with type, and performing (48) algorithm operations which identify combinations of bit addresses that would result in combining the failures so that there are more errors in any memory word than would be correctable by the error correction code monitoring (42) the memory.
摘要:
Swapping of physical bits between different logical words of a memory (40) is accomplished by reference to data (46) on bad bits in the memory. Different permutation data (34) are selected to control address inputs to each bit position (12i) in a memory word so that any word with multiple uncorrectable data is changed to a correctable logical data word by placing one or more of the bad bits in the original word into another word of the memory. The swapping is done by an exclusionary process (48) which identifies and deselects certain deleterious potential combinations of actual addresses thereby limiting the selection process to ohter combinations. The process can involve categorizing (44) of failures in accordance with type, and performing (48) algorithm operations which identify combinations of bit addresses that would result in combining the failures so that there are more errors in any memory word than would be correctable by the error correction code monitoring (42) the memory.