Altera Corporation

Zunhang Yu Kasnavi

Jayabrata Ghosh Dastidar

Eng Ling Ho

Chung Fu

Aman Aflaki Beni

Dhananjay Srinivasa Raghavan

Jaydev Amit Shelat

Ramraj Gottiparthy

A device tester is provided. The device tester includes a probe card and a substrate coupled to the probe card. The substrate has a plurality of layers for routing a signal. An integrated circuit is coupled to the substrate. The integrated circuit is operable to transmit an input signal received from a testing apparatus to a device under test through the substrate to a signal probe. The signal probe is further operable to receive a test signal from the device under test in response to the input signal, wherein the integrated circuit is operable to amplify the test signal, and transmit the amplified test signal to the testing apparatus.

Method and apparatus for die testing

Programmable delay test circuitry is provided for testing a circuit under test on an integrated circuit. Delay test circuitry may use logic circuitry to output an error signal when a delay time provided by the circuit under test is greater than a characteristic time that may be programmed into the programmable delay test circuitry. Programmable delay test circuitry may use a logic gate to provide a pulse that has a pulse width equal to the delay of the delay circuitry. Programmable delay test circuitry may contain a programmable load that may be programmed to have a characteristic time. Programmable delay test circuitry may assert an error signal when the delay time is greater than the characteristic time of the test circuitry.

Delay test circuitry

Method and apparatus are disclosed related to testing and testability of adaptive equalization circuitry. Where an equalization circuit is provided in an IC, a modified internal loopback provides a testing signal. A local comparator circuit with flexible connectivity offers analog signal testing analysis in conjunction with a low-cost external tester. Flexible use and connectivity of the comparator and external connection points, and block isolation circuitry make accurate, faster, and lower cost testing methods possible.

Method and apparatus for equalizer testing

Integrated circuits such as programmable logic device integrated circuits have configuration random-access memory elements. The configuration random-access memory elements are tested to determine whether any of the elements have resistive bridging faults at their outputs. During testing, a pattern of test configuration data is loaded into the configuration random-access memory elements. The programmable logic device is placed in user mode to clear programmable logic registers on the device. The configuration random-access memory elements are sensitized to the presence of resistive bridging faults by performing read operations. After sensitizing the configuration random-access memory elements, a tester applies test vectors to the programmable logic of the programmable logic device. As the test vectors are applied, the tester observes whether the programmable logic of the device is performing properly or has been affected by the presence of a resistive bridging fault.

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Zunhang Yu Kasnavi