tamir@ucla-cs.UUCP (02/05/86)
We are looking for a low cost (around $5K) tester for VLSI chips. CADIC Inc. makes the STM4000 that plugs into an IBM PC. The list price for that is $4895 for 64 channels and $6815 for 128 channels. I would like to hear from people who are using such low-cost testers (the CADIC one in particular). Any comments/recommendations would be welcome. Yuval Tamir Internet: tamir@locus.ucla.edu UUCP: { ihnp4, ucbvax, randvax, . . .}!ucla-cs!tamir
miller@loral.UUCP (David P. Miller) (02/05/86)
We're also intereted in the same type of information for low priced VLSI, and components tester, I'd be also interested in receiving any input on the matter. Thanks, in advanced, BIG DAVE. -- David P. Miller - Loral Instrumentation. / USUAL \ sdcsvax!sdcc3!sdcc6!loral!miller \ DISCLAIMER / ******************************************************************************** "Sticks and stones may hurt my bones but words ......................."
eda@tekig5.UUCP (Ed Averill) (02/09/86)
() As someone who has been in quite a few discussions with colleagues about testers which run on the PC lately, I would like to know whether you folks mentioning the Cadic stuff are interested more in cheap at DC, or need some speed--say bursts of 20 Mhz. In our most recent standard-cell design we used the circuit into which the IC went as its only test bed. There were a couple of times that a simple DC (slow stepping) functional tester would have been helpful, especially if we could get vectors from our simulation environment in/out. Is our little experience typical?