Patent ID: 6909299

Claim:
An electromechanical system for testing IC-chips; said system being comprised of: a total of N chip holding subassemblies, where N is as integer greater than one and where each chip holding subassembly has sockets for holding a group of IC-modules that include said IC-chips; a moving means for automatically moving the i-th one of said N chip holding subassemblies from a load position in said system to a test position in said system, and visa-versa, where i changes with time in a sequence; a power supply means which sends electrical power only to those IC-modules that are held by said chip holding subassemblies at said test position; and, a signal generator means which sends test signals concurrently to said IC-chips on all chip holding subassemblies that are at said test position, where said test signals are shifted in time from one subassembly to another.