Patent ID: 7352197

Claim:
A system for testing integrated circuit (IC) packages comprising: a quad site docking plate having four openings for alignment of the IC packages; an octal site docking plate having eight openings for alignment of the IC packages; the quad site docking plate and the octal site docking plate being interchangeable for being separately mated with a printed circuit (PC) board, the PC board supporting attachments areas for separately mating with attachment areas of either the quad site docking plate or the octal site docking plate when in use so that the openings of either the quad site docking plate or the octal site docking plate fit around electrical contact sites of the PC board for mating with contacts on the IC packages held by either the quad site docking plate or the octal site docking plate, respectively, when in use; the PC board having traces associated with the electrical contact sites for testing the IC packages held in either the quad site docking plate or the octal site docking plate, respectively, when in use; a first number of the IC packages being four and being capable of placement respectively into the four openings of the quad site docking plate facilitated by first slanted walls for allowing alignment by sliding of the first number of the IC packages respectively into the four openings of the quad site docking plate; and when interchanging quad site docking plate for the octal site docking plate, a second number of the IC packages being eight and being capable of placement into the eight openings of the octal site docking plate facilitated by second slanted walls for allowing alignment by sliding of the second number of the IC packages respectively into the eight openings of the octal site docking plate; and the first slanted walls associated with the openings of the quad site docking plate by comparison being approximately orthogonal to the second slanted walls associated with the openings of the octal site docking plate with respect to separate placements of the quad site docking plate and the octal site docking plate in a frame.