Apparatus providing signals for burn-in of integrated circuits
AssigneeMicro Control Company
InventorHarold E. Hamilton
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AssigneeMicro Control Company
InventorHarold E. Hamilton
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A burn-in board construction mounts and provides operational signals to circuit packages, for example, digital devices in an environmental stress operation such as in an oven/chamber for dynamic burn-in. Each of the circuit packages has connections to circuits and which connections are connected to conductors on the burn-in board. At least one auxiliary board is mounted on a main burn-in board and carries contacts to double the number of test connections for digital devices on such burn-in board without changing the basic mounting or environmental chamber construction. The construction permits two 128 pin driver/receiver boards of standard design to be connected to each burn-in board module. This permits coupling several hundred driver connections to a single burn-in board while still utilizing standard connectors as the interconnects.
A burn-in board assembly for providing signals to electronic circuit package components, said burn-in board assembly being useable in an environmental chamber having a plurality of slots extending through a wall thereof comprising a first planar board of size sufficient to mount a desired number of the components, each of said components having a plurality of signal connection means, said first board having a plurality of edge contacts adjacent one edge thereof and connected to a first plurality of said signal connection means, said first board having a first length extending along the plane of the board in a direction perpendicular to the length of the one edge thereof, and at least one second auxiliary board portion mounted to the first board adjacent the edge of the first board having said contacts thereon and being spaced from the first board by a distance sufficient so that when the first board is passed through a slot in the wall of an environmental chamber, the auxiliary board passes through an adjacent slot in such wall, the auxiliary board having edge contacts aligning with the contacts of the first board and connected to a second plurality of signal connection means on the first board, the auxiliary board being substantially shorter than the first board in direction of the first length.
In a burn-in board assembly for providing signals to electronic components such as circuits contained in circuit packages, wherein the boards are mounted in an environmental chamber having a plurality of slots extending through a wall thereof, the improvement comprising a first board on which the components to receive signals are mounted, said components having a plurality of connections, said first board having contacts adjacent one edge thereof connected to a first plurality of said connections, and at least one second auxiliary board portion fixed to the first board adjacent the edge of the first board having said contacts thereon, the auxiliary board being spaced from the first board by a distance sufficient so that when the first board is passed through a slot in a wall of an environmental chamber, the auxiliary board passes through an adjacent slot in such wall, the auxiliary board having edge contacts on an edge thereof substantially aligning with the edge of the first board having the contacts thereon for substantially simultaneous connection to connectors on an exterior of the environmental chamber, said contacts on the auxiliary board being connected to connections of the components on the first board.
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