35+ people since 15 years Jan Hoppe principal. Our method of the test of CMOS chips (novel probe cards) close to fruition for a market. Coached for 11 years by 60 B investor. Huge interest of key probe cards vendors,
Looking for a VC to invest seed money ~2.5 M US over initial 1.5 year to show customer grade non-contact test of chips on wafer level with IP and carry with customers on significant (10 M US from VCs. 3 years to get good ROI.
Made money/work contributions including to academic grants 12 years duration) to develop non-contact wafer test for CMOS 99% of chips. Total > 2..5 M US, R&D ~95% done.
The CMOS roadmap itrs.net::Force on test pad is killing underlying dielectric and chip can die in apps and nobody will know why. We offer most important tool as per itrs.net to control the quality of chips, and we lower their costs, Than more advanced IC than .more delicate dielectric and chance to kill IC by probe force greater. A statement that non-contact test will be soon the only way to go is not the exaggeration.!!!.
The 50% non-contact test) by STM #9 foundry claims huge savings.. All use MEMs probes in probe cards and we reuse several in our test for power. Biggest make own probe cards. Longer term market ~1 B. With all “sells” of our business models, the market will be in 2022~ $ 4- 5B. Business models add embedded non-contact test point to any chip (in software) without knowing the functionality of that chip, a big market !.
CMOS chips would be tested on wafer non-contact at much lower cost. Our photonic technology is native to CMOS (95% of chips) process. Lifetime is >30 years and good for post CMOS. Big sell is that we can test wireless chips of user bandwidth up 100 GHz way into future..
Separately concept of first-ever in-situ test of the quality of contact of current MEMS probes. Finding fault in customer apps costs 1000 000 ++ times more than on wafer level. The immediate market is 100 M and 500-800 long term. Seed money here for 2 years is 900 K.. Joined efforts with Steeve Lavioe CEO of photonic company Gatineau Quebec5 M revenues, he is now at helm.
CEO of coworking photonic company. I consult for them on non-contact wafer test and test of radiation hardened chips He replaces me at helm of venture.