Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Clock or pulse waveform generating
Patent
1994-09-21
1995-11-07
Wambach, Margaret Rose
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Clock or pulse waveform generating
327241, 327270, 327273, 327407, 371 21, 371 24, 39518301, H03K 104, H03K 1100
Patent
active
054650666
ABSTRACT:
A waveform formatter for use in testing a semiconductor device is capable of reducing a total size of circuit configuration. The waveform formatter includes a plurality of clock generators in which at low-speed operation, clocks are used to generate waveforms and control signals of drivers, while at high-speed operation, all clocks are used to generate waveforms for drivers. The waveform formatter further includes a parallel-serial converter for converting parallel signals to a serial signal, a data selector for selecting the parallel signals or the serial signal, and a waveform combining circuit for accepting output signals of the clock generators through a format control unit and for generating waveforms and control signals for the drivers using the clocks from the clock generators.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5406132 (1995-04-01), Housako
Negishi Toshiyuki
Sato Masatoshi
Tsukahara Hiroshi
Yamashita Kazuhiro
Advantest Corporation
Wambach Margaret Rose
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