Patent ID: 7930219

Claim:
A process performed on a server computer of designing a probe card, wherein the probe card provides an interface for test signals between a tester and terminals of a semiconductor device to be tested, and the probe card comprises tester contacts for making electrical connections with the tester, probes for making electrical connections with ones of the terminals of the semiconductor device, and electrical paths connecting ones of the tester contacts with ones of the probes, the process comprising: receiving at the server computer over data communications equipment from a remotely located customer computer device information describing the semiconductor device; receiving at the server computer over the communications equipment from the remotely located customer computer probe card information describing the probe card; on an applications processor executing an automated application at the server computer, generating from the device information and the probe card information a verification package that comprises a proposed design of the probe card for testing the semiconductor device; storing the verification package in digital memory at the server computer; determining at the server computer an acceptability of the proposed design of the probe card; storing the determined acceptability of the proposed design in the digital memory at the server computer; and communicating from the server computer over the communications equipment to the customer computer the verification package and the determined acceptability of the proposed design.