Patent ID: 7404122

Claim:
A method for configuring an ACAM Select RAM for an ACAM circuit of a tester that tests multiple devices under test (DUTs), the multiple DUTs each comprising a number of DUT channels to be probed by the tester, each of the DUT channels mapped to and connecting to a different PE channel in the tester, the method comprising: obtaining a configuration instruction, the configuration instruction comprising at least one DUT channel identifier field and a corresponding tester resource identifier field; for each PE channel and for each DUT channel identifier field in the configuration instruction, comparing the DUT channel identifier specified in the DUT channel identifier field of the configuration instruction to the respective DUT channel identifier mapped to the respective PE channel; and for each PE channel whose respective DUT channel identifier matches the specified DUT channel identifier, extracting and loading tester resource configuration information specified in the corresponding tester resource identifier field of the configuration instruction into the ACAM Select RAM in a position corresponding to the respective PE channel at a current ACAM Select RAM load address.