
Laser Marking for Microchips
Semiconductor Production
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Taiwan
Introduction
One of the final steps in the production of microchips is the printing of the information on the
chip itself. Most chips just have a batch number and logo, but there is a new trend to include
more information and have more complex patterns printed on the chips as well.
A customer used Advantech’s PCI-1761, PCI-1240U, FPM-3120 and ACP-4001 with a machine
vision system to create a fully automatic laser marker for microchips. By using PC-based
products, their new system is more powerful, more versatile, and can easily adapt to changes
in the market.
Project Requirements:
When the pattern to print on a microchip becomes
more than just a few dots, transferring it to a
PLC through a decoding program can become
troublesome. Logos and patterns are often created
in AutoCAD, Pro/E and other PC-based applications.
Using a PC over a PLC allows operators to load these
patterns directly into the machine instead of having
to go through an additional decoding process. This
results in a faster turnaround and the capability to
have more complex designs.
To fully automate this system, machine vision is
necessary. And for high quality machine vision, the
captured images are so large that only a computer
can process them. It was fairly obvious that if the
whole system was PC-based, system integration
would become easier. The requirement was therefore
to get a PC-based system to replace the customer’s
low-performance PLC-based system.
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