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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2013
Applicant:
Advantest Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Michael Jones, San Carlos, CA (US);
Scott Bloom, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
ADVANTEST CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2221 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a testing device, a method for implementing distributed pin mapping. The method includes receiving a request from a plurality of CPUs to access a pin map memory at each of a plurality of bridges, implementing accesses to the pin map memories locally at each of the plurality of bridges, and using pin map data from the accesses to the plurality of CPUs to enable access to testing device resources.