Functional failures which were sensitive to temperature or voltage were usually seen in failure analysis and many strategies have been employed to solve this kind of failure. But some special failed ICs which were sensitive to light post decapsulation were difficult to handle. Three light sensitive functional failure cases were presented in this paper to show how we can find the root cause efficiently and what kind of mechanism lead to them sensitive to light.
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