Patent ID: 8694845

Claim:
An apparatus for testing an electronic circuit on a semiconductor substrate, comprising: an interface that is to receive a test signal from a test equipment as an input to the apparatus to test the electronic circuit on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the test equipment comprises a test signal generator and is situated external to the semiconductor substrate on which the electronic circuit is located; a comparison module which comprises a second electronic circuitry and is to compare a system response signal with an ideal response signal, which is generated by the test equipment, to indicate whether the electronic circuit functions correctly and to generate a result, wherein the apparatus is to further determine whether the electronic circuit functions correctly based at least in part upon the result, and at least a part of the second electronic circuitry is located on the semiconductor substrate on which the electronic circuit to be tested is located; a recording module which comprises a third electronic circuitry and is to transmit at least a portion of the result to the test equipment and to store the result in a computer or machine readable storage medium, wherein the interface of the apparatus is designed to transmit the test signal from the test equipment to the electronic circuit on the semiconductor substrate and to transmit the ideal response signal and a comparison result signal between the test equipment and the comparison module.