[net.lsi] low-cost VLSI chip testers

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
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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.


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eda@tekig5.UUCP (Ed Averill) (02/09/86)

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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?