Patent ID: 7256594

Claim:
A method for testing a semiconductor device having n connector pins corresponding to n signals, the method comprising: coupling the semiconductor device to a back side of a circuit board comprising circuitry adapted to provide an actual operating environment for the semiconductor device, wherein the coupling of the semiconductor device to the back side of the circuit board comprises: coupling a front side of an interface board to the back side of the circuit board, and coupling the semiconductor device to a back side of the interface board, and wherein the coupling of the front side of the interface board to the back side of the circuit board includes routing each of the n signals corresponding to the n connector pins through the interface board from a back side thereof to the front side thereof to produce electrical continuity in each of the n signals therethrough while reversing an existing arrangement of connector pins as between the front side of the circuit board and the back side of the interface board to which the semiconductor device is coupled so that the semiconductor device couples to the back side of the interface board with the same existing arrangement of the n connector pins and the corresponding n signals as it would to the front side of the circuit board; and operating the circuitry on the circuit board.