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From: eda@tekig5.UUCP (Ed Averill)
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Subject: Re: low-cost VLSI chip testers
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Date: Sun, 9-Feb-86 14:44:49 EST
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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?