Electromechanical module, for holding IC-chips in a chip testing system, that synchronizes and translates test signals to the IC-chips

An electromechanical module, for use in testing multiple IC-modules concurrently;

• said module comprising:
• a circuit board having a plurality of sockets mounted thereon, where each socket is structured to hold one of said IC-modules;
• each socket having a corresponding register on said circuit board, where each register has N data inputs and one clock input which synchronizes the storing of signals from said N data inputs into said register;
• a bus, on said circuit board, which sends a timing pulse to said clock input on all of said registers in parallel, and concurrently sends a clock signal and N−1 test signals to said N data inputs on all of said registers;
• and,
• each socket having N input terminals that are connected to N outputs on a respective set of signal translators on said circuit board, and each set of signal translators have N inputs that are connected to N data outputs on said corresponding register.