larry wagner
Failure Analysis

New!!!!!!  A program of training in IC Quality, Reliability and Failure Analysis is now available.  The program is modular and currently focused on the needs of a fabless design company. It can readily be adapted to other audiences and the modules can be given separately.  A full program is adaptable to a one day or two day program.

LWSN Consulting provides consulting services for Integrated Circuit Failure Analysis.  Larry Wagner has 30 years of failure analysis experience at Texas Instruments.  His experience in Failure Analysis Management provide a solid basis for providing support in the following areas:

  • Customized FA Training
  • Support of Setting up New FA Labs
  • Assessments of FA Capability
  • Problem Solving Facilitation
  • Standardizatin of FA Processes across Labs
  • Other FA Management Issues

Larry's vast experience includes:

  • Leading TI's Quality Organization Failure Analysis Activity including Assessment and Capital Support
  • Author of "IC Failure Analysis: Tools and Techniques"
  • Many Tutorial Presentations including ISTFA, IRPS, ESREF, IPFA
  • Support for set up of new FA Labs in Shanghai and Midland, Tx

Larry has been in many leadership roles:

  • President of ASM International
  • Founder and First President of the Electronic Device Failure Analysis Society
  • First Editor of EDFAN (Electronic Device Failure Analysis Newsletter, now a Magazine)
  • Two time chairperson of the Sematech Product Analysis Forum
  • Member of the Sematech Quality Council
  • Chair of the 1995 International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis

Base consulting hourly rate is $250 for the first 4 hours and $200 after that plus travel expense outside of the Dallas area.