Patent ID: 8319514
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a test apparatus having a plurality of stages for testing wafers by using an operation button in an operation screen displayed on each of a plurality of monitors, comprising: providing exclusion condition data that combines functional data required for operating various functions of the test apparatus into an exclusion condition, and an exclusion condition pattern that combines the exclusion condition into data for determining whether the operating button configured to operate each function can be pressed or not, providing an exclusion condition button to one or more monitors for excluding the operation button according to an operating condition of the test apparatus, determining the exclusion condition of the exclusion condition button with reference to the exclusion condition data and the exclusion condition pattern by pressing the exclusion condition button, and preventing a screen satisfying the exclusion condition on the one or more monitors from being displayed on other monitors based on the determining.