Patent Document ID: 9739720
Application ID: 13885136
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for inspection recipe generation for automated inspection of semiconductor devices, comprising at least one of the following groups of steps based on an initial condition: when creating an initial recipe: using a reference data set for inspection recipe generation; running automatic inspection with the initial recipe on captured images of dies of the reference data set with an inspection system; classifying the detected inspection results from the automatic inspection and comparing the classified inspection results with an expert classification of defects in dies; generating overkill and underkill numbers; and modifying inspection recipe parameters and repeating the automatic inspection if the detection and/or the classification of a test data set is below a predefined threshold using saved images of dies to iteratively improve the inspection recipe parameters for use in future semiconductor device production; or, when starting with the initial inspection recipe and a knowledge database of dies is not large enough: using a reference data set for inspection recipe generation; running automatic inspection with the initial recipe to capture images of dies of a new semiconductor device loaded into the inspection system; classifying the detected inspection results from the automatic inspection and comparing the classified inspection results with the expert classification of defects in dies; generating overkill and underkill numbers; and modifying inspection recipe parameters and repeating the automatic inspection if the detection and/or the classification of the test data set is below the predefined threshold using saved images of dies to iteratively improve the inspection recipe parameters for use in future semiconductor device production.