Patent ID: 7729528

Claim:
An automated system for inspecting a substrate, the system comprising: a wafer test plate; a substrate provider for providing a substrate to the test plate, wherein the substrate is selected from a group consisting of a whole patterned wafer, a sawn patterned wafer, a broken patterned wafer, at least one portion of a patterned wafer, an individual die, at least one portion of an individual die, a plurality of individual die, at least one portion of a plurality of individual die, multiple die in a waffle pak, a multi-chip module (MCM), a JEDEC tray, and an Auer boat; a visual inspection device for visual inputting of a plurality of known good quality substrates having a user defined level of quality during training and for visual inspection of other unknown quality substrates during inspection; an illuminator for providing short pulses of light to each of the unknown quality substrates during movement between the substrate and the visual inspection device; and a microprocessor having processing and memory capabilities for developing a model of good quality substrate and comparing unknown quality substrates to the model.