Automation of Synchronous Bias Transmission Line Pulsing System

Author

Chang, Bor-Wei ; Hsu, Hsin-Chyh ; Ker, Ming-Dou

Author_Institution

Ind. Technol. Res. Inst., Hsinchu

fYear

2007

fDate

25-27 April 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Synchronous bias transmission line pulsing (SB-TLP) system is able to provide a synchronous bias voltage to transmission line pulse. It´s a more useful test bench to evaluate actual circuit characteristics of electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection design with gate-driven mechanism than traditional Transmission Line Pulsing (TLP) system. It´s important to set up an automatic SB-TLP system and be able to immediately analyze measured data which is more convenient to engineers. All of the instruments are controlled by a software written in LabVIEW environment to create a smart and friendly test workbench.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; electrostatic discharge; integrated circuit reliability; integrated circuit testing; transmission lines; virtual instrumentation; automatic SB-TLP; electrostatic discharge protection design; synchronous bias transmission line pulsing system; synchronous bias voltage; Automation; Circuit testing; Data analysis; Distributed parameter circuits; Electrostatic discharge; Electrostatic measurements; Protection; System testing; Transmission lines; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Design, Automation and Test, 2007. VLSI-DAT 2007. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0583-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0583-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VDAT.2007.373254

Filename

4239446