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The Pittsburgh Pirates are winning and have tons of young, exciting players. So, naturally, they've decided to a video mashup introducing themselves Saturday Night Live-style. Andrew McCutchen and Co. (or whoever the Pirates have working in their video room) spared no expense to make their presentation look like Saturday's No. 1 sketch comedy show (because it's the only Saturday sketch comedy show — get it?). But really, it's pretty creative and a job well done by the Bucs crew. Check it out in the video below.
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State funerals, held in the US capital Washington DC, are steeped in tradition and usually only held for former presidents, the last being Gerald Ford in 2006.
The last non-president to be granted one was Gen Douglas MacArthur, the Second World War and Korean War soldier, in 1964, five years before Armstrong landed on the moon.
Such an event typically involves pall-bearers from five branches of the US Armed Forces, a series of artillery salutes, a fly-past and a number of bands and choirs.
The flag-draped coffin is taken in a horse-drawn gun-carriage and placed in the Capitol rotunda for a public viewing, and a service is held at the Washington National Cathedral.
Bill Johnson, a Republican congressman from Armstrong's home state of Ohio, led calls for the astronaut to get a similar honour.
"I ask President Obama to hold a state funeral for Neil Armstrong so that every American may pay tribute to this groundbreaking hero," he said. "His first step on the moon showed the world that Americans can do anything."
However, Mr Armstrong, a former US Navy test pilot, was a determinedly private figure who granted few interviews and shunned publicity. His family may object to a public funeral. A private service is expected to be held on Thursday or Friday.
As tributes flooded in for Armstrong, who died at a hospital in Ohio on Saturday aged 82, more details of his illness also emerged. In a statement his family said he suffered "complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures."
On August 6 he had failed a medical stress test and underwent quadruple bypass surgery the following day. He had four blockages in his coronary arteries.
A day after the open heart surgery fellow moonwalker Gene Cernan had relayed a message from Armstrong's wife Carol that he was "doing great," and that doctors expected there to be no problems with his recovery. He died less than three weeks later.
Mr Armstrong and David R. Scott arrive at Complex 19 for a simulated test in preparation for flight in 1966.
Following his death, fellow Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin called his colleague the best pilot he had ever seen.
"I know I am joined by millions of others in mourning the passing of a true American hero and the best pilot I ever knew. I will miss my friend Neil," he said.
Astronaut Michael Collins, the third member of the mission who orbited the moon in the command module, said: "He was the best, and I will miss him terribly."
In a statement released on Saturday, his family paid tribute to "a reluctant American hero who always believed he was just doing his job."
"While we mourn the loss of a very good man, we also celebrate his remarkable life and hope that it serves as an example to young people around the world to work hard to make their dreams come true, to be willing to explore and push the limits, and to selflessly serve a cause greater than themselves.
"For those who may ask what they can do to honour Neil, we have a simple request. Honour his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."
Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon. (Getty)
Other tributes poured in, led by President Obama who said: "Neil was among the greatest of American heroes – not just of his time, but of all time."
In May 2010 Armstrong had criticised Mr Obama's vision for the future of space travel, appearing before a Senate committee to say he believed the president had been "poorly advised."
Armstrong was unhappy with the failure to replace Nasa's defunct space shuttle programme.
It was a rare public appearance by the astronaut.
Armstrong's unlikely path to the moon began in Wapakoneta, Ohio, where his fascination with flying led him to work at a nearby airport when he was a teenager. He received his pilot's licence on his 16th birthday and went on to study aeronautical engineering.
As a US Naval Aviator, he flew 78 missions in the Korean War and later piloted more than 200 different models of pioneering aircraft as a test pilot.
He became an astronaut in 1962 and always modestly attributed his status as first man on the moon to chance.
"I wasn't chosen to be first," he said "I was just chosen to command that flight."
Neil Armstrong photographed in Washington in 2011
But Nasa had chosen him for good reason. When Eagle, the Apollo 11 lunar module, made its perilous descent to the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969, it was the extraordinary skill of Armstrong, then aged 38, that averted disaster.
As the tiny craft skated over lethal boulder fields and steep-walled craters, its fuel tanks emptying, Armstrong and fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin realised they were miles from the planned landing spot.
Without breaking a sweat, Armstrong found a flattish patch of ground and put them down with only seconds of fuel left.
Armstrong also maintained to the end that his famous first words from the moon were misquoted.
Hundreds of millions of people on Earth heard him say "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," but the astronaut said he had spoken the words "a man."
Decades later, in 2006, a computer analysis found evidence that he was right, and the world was wrong. Nasa backed its hero, saying: "If Neil Armstrong says there was an 'a,' then as far as we're concerned, there was an 'a'."

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Keep your son's toy cars organized in this cute Sewn Toy Car Holder by Fawnda Norman. You won't find many sewing patterns online that are as adorable and easy as this one!
- 3 - 13.5 X 7 inch rectangles of fabric. I used denim from a pair of old jeans, black flannel (for the road), and a car flannel
- ribbon (yellow works great to be part of the road)
- Optional: Fusible fleece
- Sewing machine (with other sewing tools: scissors, thread, etc.
- Iron your fabric. Pick out which one you want to be the pocket, fold it in half and iron across the crease.
- Optional: I also ironed on the fusible Fleece to the top of the back side of the black flannel. This was to give the "road" a little more stability and cushion.
- Open your pocket and on the BACK side make vertical lines up to the crease at 3", 5.5", 8" and 10.5"
- Now we are going to set up our pocket: Place your pocket (folded back down) onto the TOP side of the black flannel.
- Then, flip open the pocket and pin into place on the bottom half.
- Sew on your vertical lines that you made, being sure to stop at the fold crease. Make sure to back stitch at the beginning and end of each line.
- Here is what the back looks like:
- Flip your pocket down and sew two line across the top of the black flannel to make a road. DO NOT sew on the pocket!
- Place your ribbon on your road. I used a measuring tape to make sure that it was straight across. Pin your ribbon in place.
- Sew on your ribbon. I sew down each side.
- Here is what it looks like now:
- Cut off a piece of ribbon that is about 32' long and fold it in half. Pen it to where the yellow ribbon on your road is with the length of the ribbon going onto the car roll. (This is going to be our tie)
- Put the denim piece on top of the car roll (Right sides together).
- Make sure that your tie ribbon is on the INSIDE... or it will come out backwards!
- Sew around the outside edge of the car roll, making sure to leave a 3-4 inch opening to flip it right side out.
- Flip the car roll right side out and iron on the creases of the seams. Top sew your opening closed and you are ALL DONE!
- Put some cars in it and roll it up and tie it!
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You never know how connecting with someone will turn out.
I don't investigate people who ask for help on Twitter, I just do my best to help them. Sometimes later I find out that they are people very different than myself.
This also happens when people share help or tips. I just say thank you, and credit them if I share their tips. I at most do a quick click to make sure that if I am linking to a site or social media account, that it actually exists.
How a helpful commenter helped create my most popular post.
Nearly a year after I wrote about how to make your Twitter sidebar transparent, a commenter wrote in with a fix for a problem some people have been having. They linked to their Twitter account, so a quick click showed that it was a real account (at a glance, nothing about it was remarkable), and I went ahead and updated the blog post and credited them with finding and sharing the tip.
Eventually, someone pointed out to me that my blog linked to a porn star on Twitter. I eventually figured out that it was the helpful person who had shared the tip.
The blog post they offered the tip for has long been very popular here, and has been gaining a lot in popularity since including the tip. Several commenters have pointed out that my blog post has the tip/fix while others elsewhere on the same topic do not. The extra popularity from the tip has meant many hundreds of extra visits.
I have found the same phenomenon happens on Twitter.
People very different than me recommend my Twitter account
When I see someone has recommended @TweetSmarter to a friend, I sometimes check out their tweets. It's not uncommon to discover that they are someone I would be unlikely to otherwise have made a connection with due to our differences. It's actually quite common.
If I refused to help people very different than myself, and if those same kind of people refused to help or recommend me, I wouldn't be surprised if this blog or my @TweetSmarter account reached 70,000-100,000 fewer people than it has today.
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Puppet Showplace Theatre presents "Jack and the Beanstalk" by All Hands Productions
Feb 22, 10:30am&1pm; Feb 23-24, 1pm&3pm Fri, Feb 22 - Sun, Feb 24, 2013
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You may think you know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, but you've never seen a version like this. Join David Stephens and All Hands Productions for a different look at the tale of Jack and his encounters with some magic beans, a beanstalk, a giant and some other fairytale favorites. This production is guaranteed to please audiences of children and giants alike.
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In 1989 Lenox celebrated its centennial — a landmark reached by no other American porcelain company. Its luster remains undiminished. Lenox china patterns, including Eternal (1965) and Federal Platinum (1991), consistently rank among the most popular nationwide. Newer designs, such as Winter Greetings® (1995) by the noted nature artist Catherine McClung, have been hailed as contemporary classics. And while Lenox is a leader in such current trends as transitional china and mix-and-match placesettings, it continues to employ centuries-old craft techniques, including piercing, jeweling, and etching.
In addition to the White House, Lenox tableware is at home in the vice president's official residence, more than 300 U.S. embassies, and more than half of the governors' mansions. Its giftware has been selected for presentation to dignitaries by the U.S. Congress and U.S. Department of State, among others. Its products are in the permanent collections of America's most prestigious cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and have been the centerpieces in exhibitions of American decorative arts. And most important, Lenox continues to be used with pleasure and given with pride by families across the country.
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As 2013 draws to a close, we say farewell to another year of blogging. Over the past 12 months, us here at Usabilla have been producing an average of two articles a week. My primary school maths tells me that is over 100 pieces of new content out there – providing all manner of tips, tricks and discussion.
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The use of a power sink function in IC testing results in a simple and rapid method for testing ICs, and assembled modules, at elevated temperature profiles without the use of environmental ovens. Testing IC devices at elevated temperatures may be useful for 'burn-in', for 'hot sort' performance testing that may be used in electronic devices such as DRAM memory, logic, communication devices, and microprocessors. The power sink function may be implemented as an additional isolated area of active devices, or as a section of the circuit that is not involved in the testing procedure. Alternately, the power dissipation circuit may consist of a resistive path between two external pins that are not used for IC operation, where the resistor may be on the IC or on the package. This allows for control of the temperature level and profile by simple adjustment of the voltage between the two external pins.
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of semiconductor devices forming a functional circuit, the semiconductor substrate being a semiconductor chip substrate of the electronic device structured as an integrated circuit (IC);
an integrated temperature sensor integrated on the semiconductor substrate;
a power dissipation circuit formed on the semiconductor substrate in electrical isolation from the functional circuit;
a comparator on the semiconductor substrate, the comparator arranged to compare an output of the integrated temperature sensor with a desired temperature value;
a timer circuit, on the semiconductor substrate, electrically connected to the power dissipation circuit and the comparator for enabling the power dissipation circuit for a predetermined time period if the comparator shows the output of the integrated temperature sensor being lower than the desired temperature value, the timer circuit including a setting to control the comparison of the output of the integrated temperature sensor with the desired temperature value; and
a memory disposed on the semiconductor substrate such that the desired temperature value is stored in the memory as part of a non-constant time dependent temperature profile stored in the memory.
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a power dissipation circuit on the substrate in electrical isolation from the devices;
a comparator connected to an output value of the integrated temperature sensor and to an electronic memory storage device storing a desired temperature value such that the desired temperature value is stored in the electronic memory storage device as part of a non-constant time dependent temperature profile stored in the electronic memory storage device; and
a timer circuit connected to the power dissipation circuit, the timer circuit including a setting to control comparison of the output of the integrated temperature sensor with the desired temperature value.
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an integrated temperature sensor on the semiconductor substrate;
a power dissipation circuit on the substrate;
a comparator to compare an output of the integrated temperature sensor with a desired temperature value;
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This application is a Divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 11/196,948, filed Aug. 4, 2005 now abandoned, which is incorporated herein by reference.
This application relates generally to semiconductor devices and device fabrication and, more particularly, to preheating circuits to a desired temperature prior to functional testing.
The semiconductor device industry has a market driven need to reduce the time and cost of testing electronic devices such as integrated circuits (ICs), assembled printed circuit boards (PCBs) having various IC and other electronic devices connected together on a ceramic or plastic board, and Micro electro-mechanical (MEM) devices, which may have electronic devices integrated on sensor or actuator substrates. Such testing may include function testing to determine which IC die are properly manufactured, burn in testing to determine if a functional die has what are known as infant mortality problems, hot sort testing to determine the operational speed limits of particular die so that they may be sorted into fast and slow devices, and basic reliability testing where a representative sample of manufactured die are life tested in accelerated environments to determine the expected overall failure rate. In many of these testing cases, the electronic device may have to be heated to a predetermined temperature, such as a normal long term operating temperature, prior to commencement of testing. Thus, one of the factors affecting the amount of time an IC electrical test may consume, and thus the overall cost of testing, is the need to have the IC raised, and perhaps maintained at a predetermined temperature.
It is known to use heated vacuum chucks to hold and heat IC wafers during initial function testing, and to use environmental ovens to control the temperature of packaged IC die and assembled PCBs, but such methods increase the equipment cost, tester space requirements and testing time. What is needed is a method to rapidly and accurately heat an electronic device for electrical testing.
Certain electronic devices may have a normal operating electrical current usage rate, or duty cycle, that changes greatly over relatively short periods of time, with a result that the amount of heating that may occur on the device also changes substantially. Such a device may experience what is known as thermal stress due to the constantly changing device temperature. Thermal stress may cause device package cracking with resultant exposure of the IC to environmental contaminants, and thus an accelerated failure rate. The constant flexing of joints between portions of the electronic device having different coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) during the thermal changes may result in die to package substrate delamination and thus die failure. The CTE differences between the IC and plastic encapsulant materials during thermal changes may result in ruptured wire bond to IC connections and thus device failure. There are numerous other electronic device failure modes that may be accelerated by thermal changes, resulting in reduced device lifetime. While it is known that higher operating temperatures may cause decreased device reliability and reduced lifetime, a reduction in the amount of thermal cycling a device experiences may result in a greater improvement in the device reliability and lifetime than is lost due to the increase operation temperature. It is known to improve device reliability in high temperature cycle situations by the use of an environmental temperature controller to maintain the electronic device at a more constant temperature, but such devices consume space and electrical power.
As an illustrative example, it is known to test DRAM devices at an elevated temperature to accelerate and expose device failures which may not otherwise have been identified. One known method to preheat a DRAM prior to a test without the need for additional equipment and time, such as a environmental oven, is to use the DRAM circuitry in what may be known as a heat up mode, by repeatedly running the DRAM in auto refresh mode until the desired temperature is obtained. However, DRAMs have been forced in recent years to become lower power users by consumer demand, due to the increased number of DRAMs use in various low power products such as laptop computers, cellular telephones and personal digital assistants, all of which have power limitations since they are battery driven devices. As a result, even if a DRAM is heated up using the auto refresh mode operation prior to a burn in test, the low power consumption of the DRAM may mean that the device temperature may fall during the burn in test, thus invalidating the test.
Thus there exists a need in the art for a simple, fast and accurate method for pre-heating and/or maintaining a desired temperature or temperature profile in an electronic device for both testing and certain operational situations.
The following detailed description refers to the accompanying drawings that show, by way of illustration, specific aspects and embodiments in which the present invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the present invention. Other embodiments may be utilized and structural, logical, and electrical changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. The various embodiments are not necessarily mutually exclusive, as some embodiments can be combined with one or more other embodiments to form new embodiments.
The terms wafer and substrate used in the following description include any structure having an exposed surface with which to form an integrated circuit (IC) structure or a micro electro-mechanical (MEM) structure. The term substrate is understood to include semiconductor wafers. The term substrate is also used to refer to semiconductor structures during processing, and may include other layers that have been fabricated thereupon. Both wafer and substrate include doped and undoped semiconductors, epitaxial semiconductor layers supported by a base semiconductor or insulator, as well as other semiconductor structures well known to one skilled in the art. The term conductor is understood to generally include n-type and p-type semiconductors and the term insulator or dielectric is defined to include any material that is less electrically conductive than the materials referred to as conductors or as semiconductors.
The term "horizontal" as used in this application is defined as a plane parallel to the conventional plane or surface of a wafer or substrate, regardless of the orientation of the wafer or substrate. The term "vertical" refers to a direction perpendicular to the horizontal as defined above. Prepositions, such as "on", "side" (as in "sidewall"), "higher", "lower", "over" and "under" are defined with respect to the conventional plane or surface being on the top surface of the wafer or substrate, regardless of the orientation of the wafer or substrate. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention is defined only by the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled.
The circuitry in heater region 126 may be any form of heat dissipating circuitry, including ring oscillators, DRAM cells operated in auto refresh mode continuously as long as heating is required, or any of many other well known circuits which may be controllably operated in either an on/off mode, or operated in a more continuously variable heat generating mode, such as changing the clock rate on a logic, clock or oscillator circuit. It should be noted that the location of heater 126 on the edge of the IC 100 is not intended as a limitation on the embodiment, and alternative locations may be considered, for example with the heater 126 located between the memory array 122 and the logic 124 to provide more even heat distribution across the IC 100. Locating the heater 126 near the logic region 124 and distant from the memory 122 may be useful in normal operations if the logic region 124 is frequently left in an idle mode while waiting for information to be retrieved from the memory 122, and thus may suffer increased thermal cycling, which may cause decreased reliability. Alternatively, placing the heater section 126 next to the memory section 122 may be useful for preheating the memory 122 to an operating temperature prior to electrically testing the IC 100 for what may be known as burn in failures or infancy failures prior to shipping the IC 100 from the manufacturer. An illustrative example of a temperature range used for infancy failure testing of DRAMs is from 85 to 125� C.
The heater region 126 may not be formed as a compact region as shown in this illustrative embodiment, but may rather be a series of transistor circuits scattered around in the IC 100 to provide a more even heat distribution. The heater region 126 may also be a virtual region formed of portions of the operating circuitry of IC 100 that happen not to be used during a particular operation, such as the burn in testing of the memory arrays 122. In such an arrangement there is no lost or wasted area of the IC 100 used for the heater 126 and then not used for the normal operation of the IC 100. Such an arrangement may be useful if the IC 100 is only going to need the heater 126 during function and reliability electrical testing of the IC 100, and if space is a problem with the design of IC 100. An illustrative example of a temperature range used for burn in testing of DRAMs is 50 to 60� C.
The heater 126 may be controlled externally by applying a voltage to pads 102 and 112, or may be controlled by internal circuitry on the IC 100, using an integrated temperature sensor on the IC 100. Such a temperature sensor may be located in the region 126, and may be formed by measuring the forward bias of a diffused diode and comparing the value to either an input value provided externally through an IO pad (not shown for simplicity), or to a single value or time dependent temperature profile stored in either the memory array 122, or in another memory array (not shown for simplicity) in heater 126, or a different location on the IC 100. The applied voltage will depend upon the particular technology level of the IC 100, and may range from 0.5 to 2.2 volts on typical IC devices.
The assembled PCB 300 will likely have had each of the ICs 302 to 320 tested numerous times prior to the final assembly. Typically each of the ICs 302 to 320 will have been electrically tested while still part of the wafer in which they were fabricated, then the good die will have been sawn from the wafer and assembled in the final package, and then tested again at full speed to eliminate ICs that have become faulty since being tested in the wafer, defects introduced in the packaging process, and ICs that are functional but not fast enough to meet specifications. Some of the ICs may have been operated at elevated temperatures for time periods long enough to eliminate ICs that have hidden failures likely to cause failures early in the operating life of the device, which may be called infancy failures. Such elevated temperature tests may be called a burn in. Even though essentially all of the ICs 302 to 320 have been tested numerous times previously, there is still a need to test the entire assembly on the PCB 300 to determine if there have been failures introduced in the soldering process used to assemble the board, or if there are other IC related problems, such as speed and timing interactions, that can only be revealed when used in conjunction with the other ICs. Since chip temperature affects the IC operating speed, and thus the timing interaction between the various ICs, a proper PCB electrical function test may require that some or all of the ICs 302 to 320 be heated to a normal operating temperature range before the PCB test commences. One method to obtain an operating temperature for the ICs 302 to 320 might be to place the PCB 300 in an environmental oven along with the testing fixture. This requires special equipment and takes additional time and handling. Thus some or all of the ICs 302 to 320 may beneficially be designed with the built in heater on the IC as disclosed previously.
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An embodiment of the invention includes a module level tester that exercises a DRAM at an elevated die temperature without use of an external heated air supply or the consequent increased test time involved in using external heaters. An exemplary DRAM device such as the 1 Gb DDR2 SDRAM by Micron Technology, Inc., operating at 1.8 volts at 4,300 MB/sec uses so little current that during a heated function test at 55� C., the die temperature may return to 35� C. as quickly as 30 seconds after the heater is turned off. Thus, due to the low power consumption of such devices as the DDR2 SDRAMs, or high speed low latency cache memories such as the 576 Mb RLDRAM by Micron Technology, Inc., operating at 1.5 volts, or many future memory and logic devices, testing the devices at a temperature the devices are likely to see when part of a larger electroscopic system, will require the use of expensive and time consuming external heat systems.
An embodiment of the invention includes designing a circuit with at least one alternate current path on either the silicon device (such as a DRAM) or on the printed circuit board that when enabled by means of signals on selected input output pads or pins will consume power either in addition to that being consumed by normal or test operation of the circuit, or will consume power prior, during or after the circuit being operated to bring or maintain the total power dissipation, and consequently the overall circuit temperature to a desired point. The amount of power consumed may be adjusted by either controlling the number of alternate current paths, or by adjusting the operational rate of the current paths. The method of enabling the alternate current paths may be performed by setting a mode register and issuing a unique sequence of commands, or it could be initiated by toggling an external device pin not used by the normal circuit operation. In this fashion the built in heater circuitry may be operated during test procedures, or during normal device operation for either startup mode operation, or for long term temperature stability in devices having variable duty cycles.
In either the test case, or the normal operation case, the embodiment has a two bit input 520 to a heater function used as a power sink for thermal control of the DRAM 500. The input 520 may be separate external input pads that are toggled on and off to control the amount of heating as shown, or may be internal inputs from controllers on DRAM 500. There may be only a single input pad on the input 520 in the case of a simple resistance heater or a single stage heater circuit, but the invention is not so limited. The input 520 may be a clock to drive an oscillator circuit with a rate determined by the amount of heating desired.
The illustrated embodiment has two bits that may be set in accordance with well known methods to drive a selected one of the four illustrative heat generating circuits 526 to 532. Heat generating circuit 526 may be taken to represent a 100 ohm power sink, with circuit 528 being a 200 ohm power sink, with circuit 530 being a 300 ohm power sink, and with circuit 532 being a 400 ohm power sink. With such an arrangement it is possible to generate different desired heat sources with the use of two extra input pins. Alternatively, the number of input pins used may be increased to allow greater heat generation flexibility by allowing two or more of the heat generating circuits 526 to 532 to be operated in parallel, thus providing up to 1000 ohm power sinking with the previously described circuits.
Alternatively, the heater function input 520 may be controlled by an onboard mode register as may be found on memory products having what may be known as on die termination control, such as the DDR2 SDRAMs available from Micron Technology, Inc. Such a thermal heat function system may thus be used in either a test mode, or in a non test mode by using a unique command sequence, and the low impedance thermal power sink circuits may be formed using similar resistor and transistor circuits as those already found in the on die termination circuits.
A method is disclosed for heating a circuit for function testing, for burn in testing, for reliability testing, or for use in normal circuit operation to reduce circuit temperature fluctuations. The method includes determining a current temperature of the circuit and comparing the current temperature to a desired temperature. If the desired temperature of the circuit is greater than the current temperature of the circuit, then enabling a power dissipation portion of the circuit at a predetermined operating rate and voltage, and then redetermining a new current temperature of the circuit after a predetermined time period has expired. The power dissipation portion of the circuit may be an additional circuit that is electrically isolated from the remaining circuit, and may use different input/output (IO) pads to avoid interference. The power dissipation portion of the circuit may be beneficially placed in a central region of the circuit so that the heating is uniformly spread throughout the functional portions of the circuit. In an embodiment, the power dissipation portion may be distributed around the entire periphery of the circuit. In an embodiment, the power dissipation portion may be distributed around the periphery of the circuit as well as in selected functional portions of the circuit. The power dissipation circuit may be a resistive element connected between two external IO contact pads that are not used by any other portion of the circuit, or the power dissipation circuit may be a portion of the circuit that is not currently being used in circuit operations, such as during function testing of the circuit. The total power dissipation may be controlled by voltage across the resistive element, or by the clock rate of the circuit portion used.
The desired temperature may a burn in temperature, or a ramped hot sort temperature profile to determine the operating range of the circuit. The current temperature of the circuit may be obtained from a temperature sensor integrated as part of the circuit, such as using an isolated diode junction as a thermometer. The desired temperature of the circuit does not have to be a constant temperature, as in the example of a ramped temperature profile for operation limit testing, or in long term reliability testing of thermal cycling resistance. In normally operating ICs or assembled PCBs the desired temperature may depend upon whether the device is in sleep mode, or in a ready state. In micro electromechanical devices (MEMs) the desired temperature for a portion of the device, such as the region surrounding an oscillator, maybe a different temperature than regions having integrated circuits.
Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and described herein, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that any arrangement that is calculated to achieve the same purpose may be substituted for the specific embodiments shown. This application is intended to cover any adaptations or variations of embodiments of the present invention, including but not limited to burn in testing, reliability testing, hot sort device maximum operating speed sorting, and normal device operation with temperature variation reduction. It is to be understood that the above description is intended to be illustrative, and not restrictive, and that the phraseology or terminology employed herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation. Combinations of the embodiments will be apparent to those skilled in the art upon studying the description. The scope of the present invention includes any other applications in which embodiments of the above structures and fabrication methods are used. The scope of the embodiments of the present invention should be determined with reference to the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled.
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Went to this restaurant in package trip. Food was good. Staff were friendly. Good location!!! Good price!!!
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The food was delicious! characteristic of Vietnam, I would love to! The highlight was the beautiful location! it belongs resort. One of the restaurants you should visit to experience
i love the food...i ordered grilled duck meat with honey on hotplate...and a vietnamese coffee with condensed milk
but it took about 30 minutes to serve up my little hotplate
that was after i finished my coffee and turning my head to see if they have forgotten my main course...
overall good food but poor waiting time ! cost is...
I should have trusted my instinct and left this restaurant once I saw the greased, dirty table cloths and smelled the mould smell as I entered. I didn't. The food was mediocre to say the least, and once my husband took our 3 year old to the bathroom and described the unhygienic toilet and kitchen... I really did not feel...
We went there for lunch and had a set menu. We only liked the fried eggplants with coconut. The soup was tasteless, the chicken and beef dish stringy and very oily, the lack of taste not to mention.
We ate dinner at this restaurant and it was excellent. We ordered the mixed meat seafood and it was TONS of food...easily enough for 3 people or even four. We had no idea how to do it so the owner spent a lot of time showing us. He was lovely and the lights went out so we ate by candlelight...
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I was in Sapa in March this year on a cold day and decided to try this place as it was new to me. I've been to Sapa quite often but this was my first time knowing this place as the restaurant is on a corner that I often ignor while passing by. It turn out that the food was...
We had a set dinner in this restaurant. Very nice food and the waitor is so helpful. Try the beef hotplate, the deep fried sweet potatoes, any fried vegetables and the best one is the pumpkin soup! We will sure visit this restaurant in our next trip to Sapa. I love you Sapa!
I ate every night for 3 days in Sapa and all I can say is that it is fantastic! The owner, Mr. Cuong is a fun owner and great company. They had a great selections of foods and all were superb!
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DS Flat Rocks Gem +S
DD Flat Rocks Sea Siren
This doe has always been a favorite but and I certainly have high hopes for little Prima Dona ! Unfortunately Prima Dona was seriously ill in 2013 she was treated originally for Listeriosis and when she was still down weeks later she was treated for Meningeal Worm~ Miraculously she stood up after being down for over a month on Christmas Day 2013! She truly had an amazing will to live which made it impossible to give up on her!! She does have some damage to her nervous system (a tilt to her head and neck) that will prevent her from being in the show ring but she will always be my Champion!! She does have a wonderful udder with some of the longest lateral attachments in our herd and will be retaining all does from her forever!
Primie's dam J-Nels O Buttercup came back from the 2011 ADGA Nationals with:
1st place in Yearling milker along with Best Udder!!
She also won 1st place Dam & Daughter with her dam CH/MCH J-Nels ER Dumplin who was:
1st place Senior doe for 5 & 6 yr olds along with Reserve Grand Champion Doe!!
Sire : CH Algedi Farm Drops of Honey*S
3X's GCH and 3 X's RSGC
SS: CH Algedi Farm Drops of Jupiter
Rosasharns UMT Hamachi X CH Rosasharns TL Zenith
SD: CH Rosasharn's UMT Tupelo Honey 4*D LA2008 VVEE
Best Doe in Show X3, Best Udder X5, BOB X 11, Sr Grand X 4, Sr, Res. Grand X 3, 1st X 8Rosasharns Under My Thumb X CH Rosasharns Buckwheat Honey
Photo Courtesy of Teena Bagwell of Gypsy Moon Nigerians
Dam: GCH J-Nels O ButterCup 2*M
DS: Little Tots Estate MO Organum
DD: SGCH J-Nels ER Dumplin 1*M
Photos of Buttercup courtesy of John & Judy Nelson (J-Nels)
This doe was long awaited and having seen her freshen believe she may be an improvement over her pronominal dam!
Sire: Little Totes Estate Swt Mesquite *B
DD-GCH/PGCH/MCH SM3Pines Jur En's Sugar Glider *2M 10 x GCH, 4 X RGCH, 3X Best Udder
(ARMCH Gay-Mor Berry's Jurassic 2 * D 1*M X Creek Road Envoy 2 X GCH, 2 X SR Grand, 3 X BOB, 5 X 1st)
Dam: Little Tots Estate Pennisedum
SS: Woodhaven Farms Levi Legend +B
SD:: GCH/PGCH /MCH SM3Pines Jur En's Sugar Glider 2*M 10 X GCH, 4 X RGCH 3 X Best Udder
(ARMCH Gay-Mor Berry's Jurassic 2 * D 1*M X Creek Road Envoy 2 X GCH, 2 X SR Grand, 3 X BOB, 5 X 1st)
This doe is going to be a knock out, wish I had better pics this is 2nd freshening but she wasn't full in these just took them when I shaved her up while she was feeding triplets~ wait till next year!
Phoenix Rising Farm Ulte Grandsupreme DOB 20/20/12 $600
Wow is all I can say about this girl I love her bloodlines so much that I bought her just on her pedigree never saw her till she arrived from MA but boy was I pleased! Thanks again Ashley Turcotte of Phoenix Rising Farm~
SIRE Dill's XM Kid Rock
SS MI SugarCreek TW Tune's XM +*B
SD SG Dill's LD Remember 3*M 3*D
DAM Lost Valley TB Saleen 2*M
DS ARMCH Lost Valley Tae-Bo +*B /+ *S
DD Goodwood Sisley 1*M *D
Photo credit Phoenix Rising Farm
SS ARMCH Twin Creeks BH Bay Watch ++*S E
SD MCh Gay Mor JJU Nonpareil 4*D E
Dam GCH Rosasharn TL Uridice 4*D AR2171
DS ARMCH Rosasharns Tiger L ++*S E
DD ARMCH Rosasharns Uni 3*D E AR1669
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