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US 10,649,030 B2Granted
Blade centric automatic test equipment system
AssigneeGosys Inc.
InventorsRichard Carmichael, Edward Peek, James St. Jean, David Reynolds, Michael Ferland
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Abstract
An automated test equipment (ATE) system includes a plurality of test blades each coupled to a test blade connector and mounted on a circular track; a central reference clock (CRC) having an origin point at a center of the circle; and a clock/sync connector coupled to the CRC through a zero skew clock connection to one or more sync buses, wherein each instrument utilizes the CRC to coordinate its testing process with another instrument.
Claims20
An automated test equipment (ATE) system, comprising:
- one or more test blades each coupled to a test blade connector and mounted on a circular track;
- a central reference clock (CRC) having an origin point at a center of the circular track;
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- a connector coupled to the CRC through a zero skew clock connection to one or more sync buses, wherein each blade instrument utilizes power and communication lines;
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- a central power distribution unit with one voltage coupled to each test blade.
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