1. Yield Improvement Through Data Analysis using TIBCO Spotfire Presented by: Andrew Choo Sr. Yield Engineer

2. Introduction to TriQuint Design and Manufacture of high-performance radio frequency (RF) components for wireless communication. Cell Phones, WiFi, Military and even the Mars Rover Technology is based on Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor. Spin-off from Tektronix in 1985. Currently about 2700 employees worldwide. Manufacturing sites in Oregon, Texas, Florida and Costa Rica. NASDAQ ticker: TQNT Confidential & Proprietary Connecting the Digital World to the Global Network

3. Manufacturing Operations Wafer Fabs: Clean rooms for processing 6 wafers, Building chips on wafers, layer by layer Test: Electrical testing of test structures (Process Control Monitors) and chips on wafer (Diesort) Thin and Saw: Wafers are thinned to thickness of paper and cut up using diamond saws Product Final Test: Chips are assembled into final products and tested for performance. Manufacturing Output: Products and Data! Generate about 60 Gbytes per week Confidential & Proprietary Connecting the Digital World to the Global Network

4. KEY Manufacturing Metric YIELD = Percentage of products meeting TriQuint quality and performance standards that can be delivered to customers. Primary driving factor for top line revenue With complex manufacturing processes, there are 10,000 ways to fail and it becomes critical to react quickly and correct problems that affect Yield. When Yield excursions occur: Need to extract and analyze large amounts of data. Determine ROOT CAUSE. Implement corrective actions to eliminate future occurrences. Confidential & Proprietary Connecting the Digital World to the Global Network

5. Data Analysis TIBCO Spotfire has become TriQuints standard tool for Data Analysis. Deployment started in 2004 with 5 user license. Current deployment is World Wide. Integrated with production databases for ETL and Data Mash-ups. Used in live mode during meetings to view and analyze data. Build and Deploy Analysis Dashboards: Preconfigured analysis files for different types of data. Data Drill Down methodology with load data on demand Flexible, insightful analytics for everyone. Confidential & Proprietary Connecting the Digital World to the Global Network Lets Take a Look!

6. Benefits Huge improvement in turn around times in analysis of problems from weeks to hours. Shift in how problems are solved and the way engineering approaches data analysis. Focus on the problem and what the data means, not where and how to get the data. Achieving Yield Goals: We set a goal of > 96% for product yields in 2006. We met and exceeded this goal by 2008. Recognized significant revenue from yield improvement efforts. http://www.triquint.com/contacts/press/newsanddiscoveries_detail.cfm?id=221 Make decisions based on Data David Pye, Operations VP $1.00 chip * 10k chips wafer 2k wafers month* = $1.2M/qtr2% Yield* Yield Improvement translates to Cost Savings.

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8. Cover Page

9. Overview

10. Overview (by Product)

11. Product Yield Overview

12. Yields by Product / Wafer

13. Pass/Fail Wafer Maps

14. Wafer Pattern Grouping

15. Fail Pareto Map

16. Test Trend Chart

17. Yield vs Process Tool