The Qrom Products were products where the customer sent Intel the hex file of the devices he needed
and Intel programmed them into OTP chips before shipping them to the customer.This was done to save
the customer from making a "masked rom" for his product and the customer did not want to do In-house
burning of the chips.
In 2005 Intel test site wrote a "PDN" Product Discontinuation Notice that they were no longer going to support the
T94 Programmer Tester due to the fact that the parts were Obsolete.The Fab estimated that this "PDN" was going
to cause a loss of 100 wafers per week.
I was asked By the Jerusalem Automotive Department to Do a NPI of one of the Qrom products based
on the 87kd196.I set up a known working tester and programmed a chip and tested the chip on trillium
VLSI tester.I now began to repair the boards sent from the Test site.
Most of the boards had a common fault with a blown op-amp this was caused by testing a bad chip with VCC shorted.
The PDN was canceled and the QROM products ran up until 2008 when the whole mcs51 mcs88 mcs196 was stopped
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