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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2009
Raffaele Ricci, Pregnana Milanese, IT;
Raffaele Ricci, Pregnana Milanese, IT;
STMicroelectronics S.R.L., Agrate Brianza (MB), IT;
Abstract
To verify robustness with respect to electrical overstresses of an electronic circuit under test, the latter is exposed to electrical overstresses, and the behavior thereof is monitored. In particular, both the testing of the electronic circuit in dynamic conditions is performed by causing it to be traversed by the currents that characterize operation thereof, and by exposing at least one supply line of the electronic circuit under test to electrical overstresses and the testing of the electronic circuit under test in static conditions, without causing it to be traversed by the currents that characterize operation thereof, and by exposing to electrical overstresses both the supply and the input and/or output lines of the electronic circuit under test. The device for generating the overstresses can be mounted on a circuit board, which can be coupled as daughter board to a mother board, on which the electronic circuit under test is mounted.