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wafer-to-wafer control, process control

Adjust for each wafer.

wafer,silicon,die

Wafer is silicon disk with many dies. Each die is one chip. Yield = percentage of working dies.

waiting waste, manufacturing operations

Waiting waste occurs when resources idle between operations.

waiting waste, production

Idle time in process.

waiver, quality

One-time approval for deviation.

wandb,track,visualize

Weights & Biases tracks experiments. Rich visualization, sweeps.

warm spare, production

Backup partially ready.

warm-start nas, neural architecture search

Warm-starting neural architecture search initializes search with promising architectures from prior knowledge or searches.

warmup epochs in vit, computer vision

Learning rate warmup period.

warmup for large batch, optimization

Gradual warmup for stability.

warmup,model training

Gradually increase learning rate at start of training for stability.

warmup,scheduler,lr schedule

Learning rate warmup starts low, increases gradually. Schedulers decay LR over time. Helps training stability and convergence.

warning method, quality & reliability

Warning methods alert operators to potential errors enabling prevention.

warp loss, warp, recommendation systems

Weighted Approximate-Rank Pairwise loss focuses on top-ranked items for ranking optimization.

warp scheduling, hardware

GPU thread scheduling.

warp,wavefront,thread group

Warp (NVIDIA) or Wavefront (AMD) is group of threads executing together. Typically 32 threads. SIMT execution.

warpage from cte mismatch, reliability

Bending due to thermal stress.

warpage measurement, failure analysis advanced

Warpage measurement quantifies package deformation using shadow moiré or laser profilometry.

warranty returns, business

Failed units returned under warranty.

waste elimination, manufacturing operations

Waste elimination removes non-value-adding activities improving efficiency and reducing cost.

waste identification, production

Find non-value-adding activities.

waste minimization, environmental & sustainability

Waste minimization reduces hazardous waste generation through process optimization and substitution.

waste treatment,facility

Process and neutralize chemical waste before disposal.

wastewater treatment, environmental & sustainability

Wastewater treatment removes contaminants from fab effluent through chemical neutralization precipitation filtration and biological processes.

wat (wafer acceptance test),wat,wafer acceptance test,metrology

Electrical tests on test structures to verify process.

water footprint, environmental & sustainability

Water footprint quantifies total water consumption and quality degradation from semiconductor manufacturing operations.

water intensity, environmental & sustainability

Water intensity measures water consumption per unit production quantifying manufacturing efficiency.

water recycling, environmental & sustainability

Water recycling systems treat and reuse process water reducing consumption through technologies like reverse osmosis and filtration.

water recycling,facility

Treat and reuse wastewater to reduce consumption.

water resistivity,facility

Measure of water purity (18.2 MΩcdotcm for UPW).

water reuse rate, environmental & sustainability

Water reuse rate is percentage of water recycled for reuse reducing fresh water consumption.

watermark,detection,provenance

Watermarking embeds detectable patterns in AI outputs. Helps identify AI-generated content.

watermarking for ai content,ai safety

Embed signatures in AI-generated text or images.

watermarking for model protection, security

Embed signatures to prove ownership.

watermarking,ownership,detect

Model watermarking embeds owner signature. Detect stolen models. Robust to fine-tuning.

wav2lip, audio & speech

Wav2Lip generates accurate lip-sync for talking face videos using audio-driven visual speech synthesis.

wav2vec,audio

Self-supervised learning for speech representations.

wave soldering, packaging

Through-hole soldering method.

waveglow, audio & speech

WaveGlow is a flow-based generative model for speech synthesis that produces high-quality audio through invertible transformations.

wavelet analysis, data analysis

Time-frequency analysis.

wavelet transform process, manufacturing operations

Wavelet transforms provide time-frequency decomposition for non-stationary signals.

waveletpool, graph neural networks

Wavelet pooling uses graph wavelets for multi-scale signal decomposition enabling hierarchical graph learning.

wavemix, computer vision

Use wavelet transform for mixing.

wavenet forecasting, time series models

WaveNet architecture adapted for forecasting uses dilated causal convolutions to capture long-term dependencies.

wavenet, audio & speech

WaveNet generates raw audio waveforms using dilated causal convolutions with autoregressive modeling for high-quality speech synthesis.

wavernn, audio & speech

WaveRNN uses single-layer recurrent architecture with sparse computations for efficient neural vocoding.

weak-to-strong augmentation, semi-supervised learning

Use weak augmentation for pseudo-labels strong for training.

weakly-supervised disentanglement,representation learning

Use weak supervision signals.

wear-out failures,reliability

Failures from aging mechanisms.

wear-out, business & standards

Wear-out is increasing failure rate from cumulative degradation mechanisms.