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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
May. 18, 2015
Applicant:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/26 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/2646 (2013.01);
Abstract
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method including turning on a noise-measuring system for a device under test (DUT) with the DUT turned off; measuring a first phase noise caused by the noise-measuring system; turning on the DUT; measuring a second phase noise caused by the noise-measuring system and the DUT; and subtracting the first phase noise from the second phase noise to obtain a third phase noise caused by the DUT.