SWTest Asia 2023 Program

SWTest Asia 2023 Full eProceedings


Awarded Presentations

Best Overall Presentation

KGD 56G PAM4 High Speed Testing for data center product – Setup Stability Improvement at Wafer Sort

Wei Hoong YAP (Marvell Technology Inc. – Singapore)


Best Data Presentation

3D microprinted probes for testing at sub 20 µm pitch

Wabe KOELMANS, Sam LIN, Anita HUANG, Angus WANG, Edgar HEPP, Francesco COLANGELO, Patrik SCHÜRCH (Exaddon AG – Switzerland)



Chairman’s Welcome to SWTest Asia 2023 Opening Remarks

Jerry Broz, PhD
SWTest General Chair
Delphon – USA


Thursday Keynote Presentation


Advanced Electronic Heterogeneous Integration and Testing

Wei-Chung LO, PhD
Deputy General Director
Electronic and Optoelectronic System Research Laboratories (EOSL)
Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)


Friday Keynote Presentation


Wafer in, SSD out – Famous Last Words of a Test engineer to Manufacturing: “Test All Bits!”

Pradip GHIMIRE
Vice President of Memory Product Solutions
Western Digital, Inc.


Session #1: New Probe MFG

Session Chair: Eric CHIA-CHANG (Intel – USA)

Characteristics of The New Pd-based Alloy for Probe-pins, TK-FS, which has three unique features: High Hardness/High Electrical Conductivity/High Ductility

Takeshi FUSE, Kunihiro SHIMA, and Takeyuki SAGAE (TANAKA KIKINZOKU KOGYO K.K. -Japan)


Application of MD (Molecular Dynamics) methodology in the development and verification of advanced MEMS materials for future wafer probe cards

Young Jun PARK, Jin-Wook JANG, Sang Dan KIM, Song Ho KIM, In Suk LEE, Joon Young CHOI (Korea Instrument – South Korea), Changhyun CHO, Joonyeon KIM (Samsung Electronics – South Korea)


Cutting Cost and Resolution Enabled by Novel Photonic Technologies for Next-Generation Probe Cards Manufacturing

Ksenija VARGA and Thomas UHRMANN (EV Group – Austria)



Session #2: Electrical Challenge

Session Chair: Alan FERGUSON (Oxford Lasers – UK)

Contact Resistance Application in Parametric Testing

Iwan KURNIAWAN, Kar Loong LOW and Thiam Seng YIP (Micron Semiconductor Asia Pte. Ltd. – Singapore)


SiC, GaN and more: Probing Technologies for HV/HC Power Devices

Rainer GAGGL (T.I.P.S. Messtechnik GmbH – Austria)


Current Carrying Capacity Maximization in Probe Cards And the Path to An Unburnable Probe

Hadi NAJAR (Form Factor Inc. – USA)



Session #3: AI in Probing Tech

Session Chair: Muru MEYYAPPAN (Marvell Technology – USA)

Seamless ATE test program generation using a ML approach – Multi-label classification

SenthilKumar DHAMODHARAN, Vaishnavi SARAVANAN, Dinesh ARIVALAGAN, and Lavanya RAJU (Caliber Interconnect Solutions Pvt Ltd – India)


Probes Cleaning Effectiveness challenges for fine pitch and high density Logic Probe Cards with MEMS tips

Wen Jung CHANG (Micron – Taiwan)


Probe Card Maintenance with Artificial Intelligence Assistance System

Adolph CHENG, Ying-Jen CHEN and Anthony FAN (MPI Corporation – Taiwan) Jia-Yu PENG and Prof. Chen-Fu CHIEN (AIMS Research Center, NSTC – Taiwan)



Session #4: Marketing & Innovation

Session Chair: Kenny TANG (TSMC Corporation – Taiwan)

3D microprinted probes for testing at sub 20 µm pitch

Wabe KOELMANS, Sam LIN, Anita HUANG, Angus WANG, Edgar HEPP, Francesco COLANGELO, Patrik SCHÜRCH (Exaddon AG – Switzerland)


Silicon Photonic On-Wafer Test

Choon Leong LOU and Ban Ban LIM (STAr Technologies, Inc. – Taiwan), Soon Leng TAN and Wei Liang SIO (CompoundTek Pte Ltd – Singapore)


Probe Card Market Dynamics and Cost of Test Analysis

Panchami Divakar PHADKE (TechInsights – USA)



Session #5: KGD Technology

Session Chair: Alex YANG (MPI Corporation – Taiwan)

Waveform consideration of shared driver

Shoichi MATSUO (Micron Memory Japan Inc. – Japan)


AMT 5000: KGD Testing at the Die Level Optimized for HBM

Calvin PARK (AMT. CO. LTD. – South Korea)


KGD 56G PAM4 High Speed Testing for data center product – Setup Stability Improvement at Wafer Sort

Wei Hoong YAP (Marvell Technology Inc. – Singapore)



Session #6: High Speed Challenge

Session Chair: Joey WU (SWTest Conference – Taiwan)

High Speed Probe Card architecture for High End Devices

Alberto BERIZZI, Alice GHIDONI, Xin-Reng FOO, Chee-Hoe LIN, Ivan GIUDICEANDREA, Giancarlo BRIVIO, Raffaele VALLAURI (Technoprobe – Italy)


Complex Impedance Matching Structures for Advanced On–Wafer AiP Testing

Pratik GHATE (FormFactor, Inc – USA)


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