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Subject: Available Hardware Testers (inexpensive)
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Date: Fri, 10-Apr-87 15:24:54 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 10 15:24:54 1987
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  I hope someone can help me; I'm looking for information on hardware for
testing chips. I am not looking for at-speed testing, and I am not looking
for $30,000 - $60,000 industrial testers. What I am primarily interested in
is a means of (under program control) driving some lines with a given set of
vectors, reading the results of some pins, and dealing with some pins that
both accept and generate data.
  I am considering building some hardware that would sit on an IBM PC bus
and perform these functions, but it seems to me that it is not that uncommon
of thing to want to do, and that there should either be products available
to do this sort of thing, or other people who have in some other way solved
a similar problem.
  Any information of where to look for products such as these, or other
suggestions on how I can relatively cheaply (not $10,000's) test custom
digital IC's would be appreciated.
  Thanks in advance for your efforts. I am 
Jim Guilford
(guilford@csv.rpi.edu)