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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1997
Philip T Kuglin, Tualatin, OR (US);
Credence Systems Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit tester includes a set of pin electronics circuits, each for carrying out a sequence of activities at a separate terminal of a device under test (DUT) in response to an input vector sequence. Such activities may include sending a test signal to the DUT terminal or ascertaining the state of a DUT output signal at the terminal. Each pin electronics circuit can operate in either of two modes, normal and doublet. The test is organized into a set of successive test cycles. When operating in the normal mode, a pin electronics circuit interprets each successive input vector as defining activities to be carried out during a single cycle of the test. When operating in the doublet mode, a pin electronics circuit interprets each successive input vector as defining activities to be carried out during two successive test cycles.
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