The systems will incorporate Viscom’s business into the semiconductor inspection sector, Pape explained. The acquisition opens new market, customer, and growth-area potential in a lucrative sector, he added. Phoseon’s MX line uses Si-Thru technology, an efficient IR light source with narrow spectral band that enables through-silicon inspection. The systems are optimized for MEMS-seal and other hermetic-seal inspection, through-silicon via (TSV) and wafer bond imaging and inspection, analyzing flip chip die bonds, photovoltaic applications, and silicon on insulator (SOI) inspection.
By Per Vicklund, Mentor Graphics