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12-THA2
Performance at the DUT: Techniques for Evaluating the Performance of an ATE System at the Device Under Test Socket
Thursday, February 7 | 9:50 am – 10:30 am

Heidi Barnes, Senior Consultant, Verigy
Jose Moreira, Senior Application Consultant, Verigy
Michael Comai, Senior Product Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices
Abraham Islas, Senior Product Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices
Francisco Tamayo-Broes, Product Development Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices
Mike Resso, Signal Integrity Measurement Specialist, Agilent Technologies
Antonio Ciccomancini Scogna, Application Engineer, CST of America
Orlando Bell, Vice President of Engineering, GigaTest Labs
Ming Tsai, Amalfi Semiconductor
"Performance at the DUT" is the ideal specification for an ATE test fixture. Fast slew rates of multi-gigabit signals can easily be degraded by the interaction of the test fixture's PCB, socket, and DUT interfaces, making it difficult to predict the performance at the DUT. This paper presents the results of an effort to address these challenges and show results for an application running at 6.4 Gbps on an ATE system. Topics include probing techniques for characterizing the test fixture at the DUT socket interface, calibration and 3D-EM simulation methods for de-embedding the probe effects, and synthesized performance at the DUT.