Patent ID: 7362089
Filing Date: 2008-04-22
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. In a test system for testing integrated circuits, a carrier module for adapting one or more instrument cards to the test system that are non-standard with respect to the test system, the carrier module comprising: a non-standard system bus communicatively couplable to the one or more instrument cards, the one or more instrument cards operable in accordance with the non-standard system bus; a standard test system bus for controlling functions on the carrier module; a bridge communicatively coupled to the non-standard system bus for adapting the non-standard system bus to a bus of a test system controller or for adapting the non-standard system bus to the standard test system bus; and an application interface adapter (AIA) communicatively couplable to the one or more instrument cards and to a device under test (DUT) for connecting the one or more instrument cards to the DUT, the AIA for providing clock and control signals to the one or more instrument cards.