System and method for testing integrated circuits

摘要

A module ( 236, 236 ') containing an integrated testing system ( 108 ) that includes one or more measurement engines ( 200, 202 ) tightly coupled with a compute engine ( 208 ). The one or more measurement engines include at least one stimulus instrument ( 212 ) for exciting circuitry of a device-under-test ( 104 ) with one or more stimulus signals, and at least one measurement instrument ( 216 ) that measures the response of the device-under-test to the stimulus signal(s) and generates measurement data. The compute engine includes computation logic circuitry ( 800 ) for determining whether or not the circuitry aboard the device-under-test passes or fails. The integrated testing system further includes a communications engine ( 204 ) providing two-way communications between the integrated testing system automated testing equipment ( 116 ) and/or a dedicated user interface ( 140 ) residing on a host computer ( 136 ).