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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1994
Richard J Nathan, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
James J Lan, Fremont, CA (US);
Steve S Chiang, Saratoga, CA (US);
William H Shepherd, Placitis, NM (US);
Prolinx Labs Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Two types of programmable elements, fuses and antifuses, are disclosed for forming an electrically programmable burn-in board in one embodiment and an electrically programmable device-under-test (DUT) card in another embodiment. Both types of programmable elements can also be used in a reconfiguration device for interconnecting electrical contacts in a first configuration to electrical contacts in a second configuration. The various embodiments of this invention include, for example, a component socket, a socket adapter, a cable, a cable adapter, a scrambler card for a burn-in board and a device-under-test card for a burn-in board. A method for forming a fuse is also disclosed.