Title :
A 500 MHz ATE pin driver
Author :
Jung, Taewon ; Whitney, Donald K., Jr.
Author_Institution :
Harris Semicond., Melbourne, FL, USA
Abstract :
A monolithic pin driver with a rise/fall time of 1.75 ns at 5 Vpp, fabricated on a dielectrically isolated, complementary bipolar, polysilicon emitter process, is described. This pin driver circuit consists of a switch, an output buffer, and two differential control elements. A two-stage approach, separating the switch from the output buffer, allows the speed and accuracy requirements of the switch to be decoupled from the load driving capability of the buffer. The circuit performance is discussed
Keywords :
automatic test equipment; bipolar integrated circuits; driver circuits; pulse generators; 500 MHz; ATE pin driver; complementary bipolar; dielectrically isolated; differential control elements; load driving capability; monolithic pin driver; output buffer; polysilicon emitter process; switch; Automatic testing; Circuit synthesis; Circuit testing; Delay; Driver circuits; Impedance; Linearity; Switches; Switching circuits; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, 1992., Proceedings of the 1992
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0727-5
DOI :
10.1109/BIPOL.1992.274042
