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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2006
Masuhiro Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiko Sato, Tokyo, JP;
Toshimi Ohsawa, Tokyo, JP;
Advantest Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a testing apparatus including: a pattern generator that generates an address signal and a data signal to be supplied to a plurality of memories under test and an expectation signal; a plurality of logic comparators that generate fail data when an output signal output from the plurality of memories under test and the expectation signal are not identical with each other; a plurality of fail memories that store the fail data generated from the plurality of logic comparators; a plurality of memory controllers that generate bad address information showing a bad address in the memory under test based on the fail data stored on the plurality of fail memories; a plurality of universal buffer memories that store the bad address information generated from the plurality of memory controllers; and a plurality of bad information writing sections that concurrently write bad information into the bad address in the plurality of memories under test, which is shown by the bad address information stored on the plurality of universal buffer memories.