Patent ID: 6963208

Claim:
A probe device for inspecting electrical characteristics of objects to be inspected by a tester electrically connected to a number of probes of a probe card while the probes are simultaneously in contact with electrode pads of the object formed on a substrate to be inspected, the probe device comprising: a mounting table on which the substrate is mounted; a controller for controlling an operation of the probe device; a supporting member for supporting the probe card including a plurality of channels, wherein each of the channels has a group of probes which are brought into contact with plural electrode pads of one of the objects; a channel information creation unit for creating channel information including a layout of a group of the plurality of channels and an identification number of each of the channels and transmitting the created channel information to the controller; a channel information memory unit for storing the channel information received from the channel information creation unit; and an object layout memory unit for storing layout information of the objects formed on the substrate, wherein the controller performs an inspection of the substrate at least based on the channel information stored in the channel information memory unit and the layout information of the objects stored in the object layout memory unit.