Academic Development in Test Engineering

A 2-semester program of lectures and laboratory work in mixed-signal test development engineering has been initiated at San Jose State University. Class one involves bench-top assessment on a specifically-designed printed circuit board to explore basic issues of testing: accuracy, guard bands, repeatability, correlation, and printed circuit board design. Class two revisits many of these issues in off-line and on-line programs for manufacturing testers like Agilent´s 93k. The trade-offs in accuracy versus test time are focal. This paper outlines the courses and presents an example of student ATE lab work.