Cascade Microtech Velox Flyer User Manual

Introducing a Major Breakthrough in Probe Station Productivity
Cross-platform software with Velox 2.0
Cascade Microtech has evolved its probe station user environ­ment to an unprecedented level of power and efficiency with the latest release of Velox. This consolidates our Nucleus™ and ProberBenchsystem software packages into a universal platform that offers extraordinar y gains in speed and productivity.
Cascade Microtech does it again
Velox provides yet another proof point why Cascade Microtech leads the way forward
in wafer probing systems and
technology. Velox delivers the single most powerful and flexible user environment available in the semiconductor lab. Because Velox
harnesses the flexibility of Nucleus and the power of ProberBench, it enables the fastest time-to-job-
completion and improved productivity for mixed environment labs. Velox is
backwards compatible with all current Cascade Microtech platforms and at the same time provides a “Go Forward” software platform with coherence to the Microsoft Windows roadmap.
With Velox, everybody wins
Efficiency in wafer-level testing is a challenge that impacts several functional areas. If you’re a Lab Manager or Team Leader, you’re charged with getting test data to the production floor quickly. If you’re an IT manager, you’re responsible for maintaining a secure connection between the lab and corporate networks. If you’re a finance manager, you need to ensure that you’re maximizing your return on investment for lab equipment.
Velox resolves these diverse issues by presenting all users with a single software platform. With Velox you get a tightly coordinated team effort that eliminates redundancy and focuses expertise.
You achieve better results, faster. And since Velox operates under Windows 7, you achieve a level of network security not previously possible. All the while, you’re extracting maximum utility from your lab’s equipment budget.
The ultimate in productivity
It’s long been shown that computer users who work in a single operating
“With Nucleus, I was only using the bare minimum. Velox has given me the incentive to incorporate new things and functions into my repertoire.”
– Test Engineer
maximum understanding of how to achieve the best results in the shortest time. Engineers can move with ease and confidence from one system to another. You work in a seamless environment, one that requires a minimum of training to operate with confidence.
environment will learn how to manipulate it to achieve maximum efficiency. In multiple platform environments, their efficiency inevitably drops.
Velox addresses this issue head­on with a single interface that puts all operators on the same page at the same time. Uniform operations mean minimum learning curves and
A perpetual pipeline to accelerated performance
Cascade Microtech has committed to semi-annual upgrades of Velox via a new subscription ser vice. You now have a universal platform that continually expands in power and functionality as we add new capabilities. All probe station users, from the occasional to the most experienced, stand to benefit from a continual flow of research and development into existing and future products.
Multiple paths to automated productivity
One powerful path to increased efficiency is the automation of repeatable test and measurement processes. Velox gives you several options to simplify the setup and execution of automated sequences on your probe stations. Many automation features are now standard with Velox, such as AutoAlign, which measures die size, tracks wafer expansion and permits accurate sub-die navigation. Also, you can address overall test automation through Velox compatibility with WaferPro Express from Keysight Technologies,
our partner in Wafer-level Measurement Solutions. For CM300 and BlueRay™ stations, we offer VeloxPro™, which maximizes your throughput by automating prober control of wafer handling, alignment, temperature control, Z-profiling and stepping. VeloxPro test automation software is a SEMI E95 compliant user interface. VeloxPro connects the dots providing the user a “guided” flow through the operation of the probe system. This helps inexperienced users or in production-like environments where the test sequence can be set up by an engineer and the operator is only required to start the test with a push of a button.
VeloxPro can be configured as a master or the slave in a prober/test executive
“It only took me half a day to come up to speed on Velox. By then, I felt confident I could get the job done. It was that simple.”
– Technician
setup. In a slave configuration it receives stepping commands through either GPIB, LAN or RS232 interfaces. As the master, VeloxPro controls wafer stepping and triggers the test executive to test a particular die. This communication is managed through the tester interface and basically requires the test executive
software only to wait for the trigger, run the measurement and return an end of test signal when the prober is requested to step to the next site.
An interconnection with WaferPro Express from Keysight Technologies allows synchronization of wafer maps and sub-die information, which delivers automated measurements.
Plus - Velox accepts legacy SCPI and SCI commands to put your probe station under the test executive of your choice via GPIB, TCP/IP or RS232.
The time to upgrade? Right Now
The end of support announcement for support of Windows XP has already come and gone. As of April 2014, Microsoft’s support and updating for XP came to an end. At about the same time, we halted further development and enhancements to Nucleus and ProberBench although support for these systems continues for another seven years.
Given these developments, and given the new level of power and productivity contained in Velox, it makes sense to move ahead immediately and upgrade. The sooner you act, the sooner you benefit from all the new functionality and increased productivity that Velox puts within your reach.
For information on Velox, call 1-800-550-3279 Toll-Free in USA or 503-601-1122, or go to www.cascademicrotech.com/velox
One game changer after another
Velox incorporates numerous additions and enhancements to our previous system software that accelerate your time to accurate data. For the ultimate in sub-die navigation, eVue™ now presents multiple images of the surface area under test: full-die reference, live sub-die and digitally zoomed sub-die.
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