Patent ID: 7514914

Claim:
Apparatus for testing System-In-Package (SIP) devices carried in JEDEC standard device processing trays each having a plurality of SIP device receiving cells, each said SIP device having a plurality of electrical contacts, said apparatus comprising: a test hive comprising: a plurality of test circuits corresponding in number to the number of cells in said tray; and a plurality of groups of test contacts, each group of said plurality of groups engages said plurality of electrical contacts of a SIP device disposed in a corresponding one of said cells, said test hive being operable to simultaneously, electrically test all of said SIP devices in each tray engaged by said hive without removing said SIP devices from said tray; and a sorter automatically operable to remove each said SIP device that did not pass electrical testing, and replace removed SIP devices with SIP devices that did pass electrical testing until said tray of electrically tested SIP devices is fully populated with SIP devices that did pass electrical testing.