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US 7,459,921 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for a paddle board probe card
AssigneeVerigy (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsRomi Mayder, John W. Andberg
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Abstract
A paddle board probe card for connecting a device under test with an ATE tester by means of ZIF connectors is presented. The paddle board probe card may include more than one printed circuit board mounted on a probe card in such a manner that the more than one printed circuit boards mate with ZIF connectors on an ATE testhead interface.
Claims8
A paddle board probe card comprising:
- a probe card having a top side for mating with a device under test and a bottom side for mating with ZIF connectors of an ATE testhead;
- and
- a plurality of printed circuit boards mounted at a substantially right angle to the bottom side of the probe card, wherein the plurality of printed circuit boards are configured to mate with the ZIF connectors of the ATE testhead.
A method of fabricating a paddle board probe card comprising:
- providing a probe card with a top side and a bottom side;
- and
- mounting a plurality of printed circuit boards at substantially right angles to the bottom side of the probe card, wherein the plurality of printed circuit boards are configured to mate with ZIF connectors of an ATE testhead.
A method for testing a device under test comprising:
- providing a paddle board probe card with printed circuit boards mounted at substantially right angles to a bottom side of the paddle board probe card;
- mounting the paddle board probe card to an ATE test head by mating the printed circuit boards mounted on the bottom side of the paddle board probe card to ZIF connectors on the ATE test head;
- mounting the device under test to a top side of the paddle board probe card;
- and
- running at least one test on the device under test.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.