Electricity: measuring and testing – Measuring – testing – or sensing electricity – per se – With rotor
Patent
1992-08-12
1993-12-14
Nguyen, Vinh
Electricity: measuring and testing
Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se
With rotor
324 731, 324 96, G01R 2726
Patent
active
052706435
ABSTRACT:
An electron-beam test probe system (400) in which a pulsed laser-beam source (404) and a photocathode assembly (430) are used with an electron-beam column (426) to produce a pulsed electron beam at a stabilized repetition frequency. A pulse picker (414) allows the pulse repetition frequency of the pulsed electron beam to be reduced to a submultiple of the pulsed laser repetition frequency. A test pattern generator (416) is programmable to apply a desired pattern of test vector patterns to an electronic circuit to be probed, the test vector patterns being synchronized with the stabilized laser-beam pulse repetition frequency. A timebase circuit (412) allows the test vector patterns to be time-shifted relative to the pulsed electron beam. The electronic circuit under test can thus be probed at any desired point in the applied test vector pattern by control of the pulse picker and by time-shifting the test vector pattern.
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Richardson Neil
Wilsher Kenneth R.
Nguyen Vinh
Olsen Kenneth
Riter Bruce D.
Schlumberger Technologies
Smith Keith G. W.
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