Title :
Cost effective frequency measurement for production testing: new approaches on PLL testing
Author_Institution :
Hewlett Packard GmbH, USA
Abstract :
The growing market of consumer multimedia products demands cost effective test solutions for built-in video functions in core chipsets. This work describes a new software approach to perform precise frequency measurements on a digital test system
Keywords :
automatic test software; consumer electronics; digital phase locked loops; fault diagnosis; frequency measurement; integrated memory circuits; multimedia systems; production testing; video equipment; DSP based algorithm; Fourier analysis; PCI memory; PLL testing; VGA shared memory architecture; built-in video functions; consumer multimedia products; core chipsets; cost effective frequency measurement; digital ATE; digital test system; production testing; signal sampling; software approach; time domain parameter estimation; video RAMDAC; zero crossing method; Circuit testing; Clocks; Costs; Counting circuits; Digital signal processing; Frequency measurement; Integrated circuit testing; Phase locked loops; Production; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Test Conference, 1996. Proceedings., International
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3541-4
DOI :
10.1109/TEST.1996.557129
