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... Atmel Quality Handbook ...
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... Business Review Field Quality Organization Customer Specification Review Process Returned Material and Failure Analysis Process Change Notification and Product Obsolecence Atmel Quality and Reliabilty Website Quality Business System Quality Business System Model Major Quality Systems Elements Statistical Process Control Product Traceability System ...
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Table of Contents (Continued) Reliability Qualification and Monitoring Overview and Philosophy Highly Accelerated Stress test(HAST) Water Level Reliability Reliability Qualification Methodology Data Retention Bake (DRB) Electronic Discharge (ESD) Endurance Test (END) Latch Up (LU) Stream pressure Pot (SPP) Temperature Cycle ...
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Quality Policy and General Information ...
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... Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency components. With wafer fabrication locations in Colorado Springs, CO, and third party foundries, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on industrial, consumer, security, communications, computing, and automotive markets. ...
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Continuous Quality Improvement Overview ...
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... Continuous Quality Improvement Overview From the early stages, Atmel’s philosophy of continuous improvement has ensured that our customers receive products with not only the highest levels of quality and reliability, but that every group within the company operates with the same customer expectations in mind. Atmel’s improvement process consists of mid-term improvement programs that require employee involvement at all levels. Atmel’ ...
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... Atmel’s Global Quality and Reliability Organization is the executive arm of the quality at the corporate, business unit, and site levels responsible for ensuring that Atmel has the most competitive systems, processes, and programs in place to drive the strategic quality improvement goals. It maintains, analyzes, and reports all internal and external quality and reliability data. As the customer advocate, it also has the overall responsibility for Atmel’ ...
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... External Certifications Certification to external standards is one example of how Atmel strives to meet the needs of its worldwide customers. Atmel design and manufacturing sites, as well as our major subcontractors, are certified to prestigious internationally recognized quality standards. Each site goes through third-party periodic recertification audits. Atmel has continued its Quality excellence path by undertaking major certification programs: ISO 9001(2008), TS 16949 (2009), and ISO 14001(2004). All of Atmel’ ...
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Customer Satisfaction Program ...
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... Customer service teams ® have always been in existence in all areas throughout the company including wafer fabs and final test areas. Atmel has an outstanding track record in customer service and has historically been recognized with service awards from many of its major customers ...
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... Worldwide Quality and Reliability Team. All results are subsequently communicated to Atmel Executive Management and Sales personnel. Further feedback is obtained by conducting a questionnaire of our sales force in order to solicit direct input on Atmel performance based on direct customer contact. The results from both sources are analyzed and used to generate opportunities for improvement through our annual Corporate Quality Goals and Initiatives. It also serves to help in the mutual understanding and exchange of information about product and technology roadmaps and helps align Atmel with our customers’ ...
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... Atmel Online FA procedure should be used and the suspect parts to be analyzed are returned to the corresponding Atmel site. We ask our customers to provide detailed information on any product returned for analysis in order to facilitate the fastest response and closure. Atmel places top priority on providing containment within 24 hours and quick initial feedback to our Key Accounts and Key customers (within 48 hours after the parts are returned) ...
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... Atmel Quality and Reliability Web Site Atmel has made a focused effort to utilize our web site as the primary vehicle for quality and reliability data dissemination our intent to continuously improve and enhance the site so that customers can have immediate access to all relevant quality and reliability information. Items that are available at: • ...
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Quality Business System ...
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... All design and manufacturing groups must comply with the corporate level systems and requirements to ensure product consistency regardless of the original design and manufacturing site. Major Quality Systems Elements Atmel Quality Handbook 16 ...
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... This ensures the shipment of consistent products to our customers at all times. Product Traceability System All Atmel products are traceable to the source wafer fab lot number. In addition, date code traceability allows quick identification of the test/assembly and fab time periods. Product traceability information is also provided on the inner and outer package boxes in addition to the reel, tube, and tray bundles ...
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... Audit and Review System Atmel maintains a system of internal and external audits to ensure compliance with our specifications. The main purpose of these audits is to assure management that Atmel’s Quality Management System is effective, adequate, and suitable in satisfying the requirements of Quality Management System standards, Atmel’s Quality Policy, and objectives. ...
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New Product Development and Introduction ...
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... Overview In order to meet our customer and market needs imperative that Atmel in a timely manner with minimal design rework. To achieve this goal, Atmel uses a comprehensive product development and new product introduction methodology (NPI). This methodology defines development stages, milestones, and deliverables in the development process. This ensures consistency across the design, development, and product business groups located worldwide ...
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Reliability Qualification and Monitoring ...
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... Atmel’s Reliability Methodology consists of early evaluation and short-loop monitoring of its technologies using wafer-level reliability (WLR), end-of-line reliability qualification of new products and technologies using a battery of stress tests, and monitoring the reliability of production released products by periodically repeating these stress tests on an ongoing basis ...
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... For this reason, Atmel maintains a stringent reliability qualification methodology for new products, technologies, and packages on packaged product according to established standards of JEDEC (JESD47), AEC (AEC-Q100) and MIL (MIL-STD-883) ...
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... Reliability Modeling Failure rates for Atmel product and processes are typically calculated based on test data with acceleration factors based on the Arrhenius Model for thermal acceleration and/or the Eyring Model for voltage acceleration. Other models, such as Coffin-Manson (temperature cycling) may be used for specific applications or customer concerns ...
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... The thermal and Voltage acceleration factors are computed as follows: TAF Therefore, The failure rate in FITS (with 60% confidence) is calculated as: Chi-Square Failure Estimate Reference Number of Failures Atmel Quality Handbook 2 χ α − ⋅ λ 100 = ⋅ ...
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... Reliability Monitor Program Each quarter, Atmel’s reliability group subjects a set of representative products to the stress tests previously used for reliability qualification. These products are selected using criteria that include volume, complexity, fab area, assembly source, and specific customer requirements. This testing is performed to ensure that the reliability of a technology continues to meet the assigned goals since its initial qualification ...
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Subcontractor Monitor and Control ...
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... After a subcontractor passes qualification and is deemed to be approved, a single quality or reliability incident may result in subsequent disqualification. Also, we utilize a detailed subcontractor assessment questionnaire in order to identify gaps between Atmel and subcontractor quality system requirements. All gaps must be addressed prior to the utilization of a new subcontractor. ...
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... SQ-BREP will be conducted quarterly globally among all the Atmel Tier 1 Assembly and Test Suppliers via the model called ‘WINNER’. The average scores of the Quarterly SQ-BREP will be used for rating the suppliers yearly. Based on these ratings, the suppliers will be ranked and selected accordingly to support current business growth. SQ-BREP is designed to support the vision of participating in high-growth markets and the company’ ...
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Quality Assurance and Monitoring ...
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... In-Line Quality Assurance A variety of methods are utilized throughout the testing process as a means of ensuring product quality. Atmel’s abnormal lot control program is heavily entrenched in the flow as statistical data is continuously updated and used to identify rogue lots. Once an abnormally yielding lot has been identified, product engineering conducts a thorough investigation in order to determine the root cause ...
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Global Quality Policies ...
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... Global Quality Policies Purpose To ensure that stringent product quality and reliability expectations are integrated throughout the company, Atmel established global-wide quality policies. Each policy serves as the governing document within each site’s local document control system. The following policies are currently in effect: ...
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... This document defines the policies, methodologies, systems, and practices for any wafer foundry engaged by Atmel. Change Management Policy This policy defines the processes, responsibilities, and approval rules for change management. Going forward, this list of policies will continue to grow as we strive to standardize best practices across all Atmel facilities. Atmel Quality Handbook 34 ...
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