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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2019
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Venkat Krishnan Ravikumar, Singapore, SG;

Jiann Min Chin, Singapore, SG;

Joel Yang Kwang Wei, Singapore, SG;

Pey Kin Leong, Singapore, SG;

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01); G01R 31/265 (2006.01); G01R 31/311 (2006.01); G01R 23/17 (2006.01); G01R 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/2889 (2013.01); G01R 23/17 (2013.01); G01R 29/0885 (2013.01);
Abstract

A reconfigurable optic probe is used to measure signals from a device under test. The reconfigurable optic probe is positioned at a target probe location within a cell of the device under test. The cell including a target net to be measured and non-target nets. A test pattern is applied to the cell and a laser probe (LP) waveform is obtained in response. A target net waveform is extracted from the LP waveform by: i) configuring the reconfigurable optic probe to produce a ring-shaped beam having a relatively low-intensity region central to the ring-shaped beam; (ii) re-applying the test pattern to the cell at the target probe location with the relatively low-intensity region applied to the target net and obtaining a cross-talk LP waveform in response; (iii) normalizing the cross-talk LP waveform; and (iv) determining a target net waveform by subtracting the normalized cross-talk LP waveform from the LP waveform.


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