A method for displaying failure information for semiconductor devices, in accordance with the present invention, includes testing a semiconductor device with a tester to determine failures, and performing a redundancy calculation to repair the failures. The results of the redundancy calculation are stored in a file which identifies only addresses of components which have failed. The file is converted to a display format and the display format is displayed to provide a bit fail map for the semiconductor device such that sparse failures are displayed in addition to row and column failures without employing the tester to regenerate fail data.