Interface for testing semiconductors
View Patent ↗A system includes an imaging device for capturing a video sequence and a display for displaying the video in a window of the display and effectively positioning a probe relative to probe pads of a device under test for testing a semiconductor wafer supported by a support of a probing environment.
1. A method for displaying video on a display for a probing system comprising:
(a) receiving a video sequence that includes a plurality of frames sequentially presented at a frame rate and imaging a device under test from light traversing a single optical path extending through a single object lens;
(b) presenting said video sequence in a first window on said display;
(c) simultaneously presenting a portion of said video sequence including a plurality of sequentially presented frames in a second window on said display, a frame of said portion of said video sequence comprising a portion of an image in a frame of said video sequence; and
(d) simultaneously presenting another portion of said video sequence including a plurality of sequentially presented frames in a third window on said display, a frame of said another portion of said video sequence comprising another portion of said image of said frame of said video sequence.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said single object lens is included together with a microscope.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein said single optical path extends to a single sensing device.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein said first window is larger than said second window.
5. The method of claim 4 wherein said first window is larger than said third window.
6. The method of claim 1 wherein a feature viewable in said second window has a larger scale than the corresponding feature when viewed in said first window.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein a feature viewable in said third window has a larger scale than the corresponding feature when viewed in said second window.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein the corresponding portions of said second window and said third window in said first window are non-overlapping.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein said second window is capable of being resized.
10. The method of claim 9 wherein said third window is capable of being resized.
11. The method of claim 1 wherein said first window is capable of being resized.
12. The method of claim 1 wherein said second window and said third window are automatically provided based upon receiving an interaction with said system.