Communicating with a dut using protocol-agnostic circuitry

Abstract

An example apparatus is configured to electrically connect to a device under test (DUT). The apparatus includes a first interface circuit to communicate with a test instrument using a first protocol and a second interface circuit to receive signals containing data from the DUT having a second protocol. The second interface circuit is configured to oversample the signals containing data in voltage and time to produce sampled data. Oversampling includes sampling the signals containing data at a rate that is higher than the Nyquist rate. Circuitry is configured to receive the sampled data from the second interface circuit, to generate the data having the first protocol based on the sampled data, and to output the data having the first protocol to the test instrument via the first interface circuit.

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