Assembly of strip conductors, device, and method for determining errors in a semiconductor circuit

    公开(公告)号:US10684323B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-16

    申请号:US15573505

    申请日:2016-05-09

    申请人: Robert Bosch GmbH

    IPC分类号: G01R31/28 G01R31/3835

    摘要: An assembly of strip conductors for determining errors in a semiconductor circuit, the strip conductors may be situated on a level of the semiconductor circuit. The assembly includes multiple sections, the sections being arranged as a series circuit, each section including a number of strip conductors, the number of strip conductors in the particular sections being different, each section including a start area and an end area, a voltage difference value between the start area and the end area of the particular section being detectable, and the voltage difference values of the particular sections being different in the case of an error.

    Contact-via chain as corrosion detector

    公开(公告)号:US10431507B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-01

    申请号:US15573252

    申请日:2016-05-09

    申请人: Robert Bosch GmbH

    摘要: A detector for determining a faulty semiconductor component including a semiconductor component, a contact-via chain, which is situated laterally at a distance from the semiconductor component and which surrounds the semiconductor component in regions, a guard ring, which is situated laterally at a distance from the semiconductor component, and an evaluation unit, which is situated on the semiconductor component, wherein the evaluation unit is designed to apply an electrical voltage to the contact-via chain, in particular a permanent electrical voltage, to detect a resistance value of the contact-via chain and to produce an output signal when the resistance value of the contact-via chain exceeds a threshold value.