Burn-in system energy management
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMarc Coq, Randhir S. Malik
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Abstract
A method and system for re-using the electrical energy of an electronic component under test. The method and system includes combining a first direct current voltage output of an electronic component under test with a second direct current voltage of a device. The combined first direct current voltage and second direct current voltage are regulated to create a power. The power functions a system application. At least one metric of the electronic component under test is monitored.
Claims16
A system for testing an electronic component, the system comprising:
- at least two electronic components undergoing burn-in testing, each electronic component under test configured to receive a respective first alternating current voltage and output a respective first direct current voltage;
- a device configured to output a second direct current voltage;
- a power regulator configured to output a first power based on the second direct current voltage and each respective first direct current voltage;
- at least one server operably coupled to the power regulator and configured to receive the first power, the at least one server performing one or more functions as a result of receiving the first power;
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- at least one component monitor configured to monitor at least one metric of the at least one electronic component under test.
A method for testing an electronic component, the method comprising:
- burn-in testing at least two electronic components, each of the at least two electronic components configured to receive a respective first alternating current voltage and output a respective first direct current voltage;
- combining each respective first direct current voltage;
- regulating, as a result of the combining, each respective first direct current voltage to produce a second direct current voltage, wherein the second direct current voltage comprises a selective proportion of each respective first direct current voltage;
- regulating the second direct current voltage and a third direct current voltage to output a first power having a first resistance, wherein the first power comprises a selective proportion of the second direct current voltage and the third direct current voltage, wherein the third direct current voltage is output by a device;
- applying the first power to at least one server having a second resistance, wherein each of the at least one server performs a respective function;
- performing, as a result of the applying the first power to the at least one system application, each respective function;
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- monitoring at least one respective metric of each of the at least one electronic components.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.