Automatic and Systematic Control of Experimental Data Measurements on ASICs

Erica Tena, Javier Castro, Antonio José Acosta

Abstract

This paper presents a methodology to perform automatic and systematic characterization test on application specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The proposed methodology is based on the automatic control of all laboratory equipment and the data processing with Matlab. The ASIC, or integrated system, is connected to controllable test equipment to generate patterns and collect the output data provided by the ASIC. The methodology that provides the Matlab script controlling the equipment, test process, making the analysis of the results and supervising the whole process, can be easily adapted to different experiments and ASIC features. The test of a piecewise affine (PWA) ASIC controller has been used to experimentally prove the automatic control in both open-loop as well as in closed-loop configurations, reducing the risk of manual measurement errors.

Keywords

automatic test, digital ASIC characterization, PWA controller, Matlab equipment control

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TC4 - Measurement of Electrical Quantities

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