Automatic test equipment pin channel with T-coil compensation

Details Automatic test equipment pin channel with T-coil compensation Automatic test equipment pin channel with T-coil compensation

2007-07-24

2007-07-24

Nguyen, Vinh P. (Department: 2829)

Electricity: measuring and testing

Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se

With rotor

C324S073100

Reexamination Certificate

active

10722970

ABSTRACT:
A passive matching network is connected to an input/output line for an automatic test equipment drive channel to compensate for capacitances associated with a receiver circuit connected to the line, and also an optional current-mode driver circuit. The matching circuit preferably comprises a T-coil circuit that can include a bridging capacitor; separate T-coil circuits can be provided to separately compensate for receiver circuit and current-mode driver circuit capacitances. The driver and receiver circuits can be implemented on a common layer of an integrated circuit, with the T-coil windings implemented in a separate layer of the same integrated circuit that is spaced from the common layer by at least one dielectric layer.

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