Services

The Facility

The NNTTF state-of-the-art test facility provides a high quality service to its customers. With the equipment located in Perth, Western Australia, the NNTTF is offering test services to Australia users. It is also open to other users using the difference in time zones around the globe.

The Services

Remote access places users virtually in front of the tester and gives them complete control.

• User provides the load board for the DUT ICs and sends it with the chips to test
  (Please contact your local NNTTF node if you require help developing the load board)
• Chips are placed on the user provided load board on the tester head by NNTTF team
• User enters a password provided by NNTTF and starts testing

The specifications of the daughter board are available from the NNTTF central facility.

The Environment

The NNTTF is equipped with an Agilent 93000 SOC P1000 tester. This platform available for SOC characterisation meets the need of production testing with the following features:

• 512 digital channels upgradeable to 1024
• All channels have:
  • Data rate of 1000Mbps
  • 2 MB sequencer memory
  • 7 MB vector memory
  • Overall timing accuracy (OTA) of +/- 200 ps
• 16 channels of 112 MB of vector memory for scan
• 16 channels of 2.5 Gbps data rate (NP2500)
• Clock rates of up to 1.25GHz
• 16 device power supply (DPS) channels

The NNTTF Agilent 93000 SOC tester also includes integrated, high performance analogue instrumentation. The combined digital and analogue test capabilities make the 93000 Series ideal for testing the most demanding Systems on a Chip comprising digital, memory and mixed-signal functionality.

• High Speed Digitiser of 40 MSample/s, 12-bit
• High Resolution Digitiser of 2 MSample/s, 16-bit
• High Resolution Waveform Generator of 1 MSample/s, 18-bit

Daughterboard Specifications

Read Me (.pdf)
Layout Data (.zip)

Characterisation

The NNTTF maintains a unique environment to enhance any industry.s competitive advantage through access to state of the art test equipment. You can fully characterize devices and better understand how they will react both functionally and thermally once packaged. Knowing this at the beginning of the design phase helps designers make better decisions for a superior performing end product.

IP Validation

NNTTF sets a benchmark for Intellectual Property Validation with services like the ASIC design validation or the FPGA based board allowing users to perform a remote at-speed validation of IPs.

Validation time drops from days to few minutes allowing further investigations of expected FPGA timing issues in a complex design under development

Users will also be able to thoroughly investigate real board-level timing margins at the I/O before the system level board is developed.

Testing

The NNTTF has an Agilent 93000 SOC P1000 Series that meets the needs of SOC production testing with 512 digital pins, each with data rate of 1 Gbps. For Scan testing there are 16 channels providing 112M Vectors of deep memory per pin.

With the NP2500 option, using true differential drivers/receivers and source synchronous tracking, users have the capability to debug, characterize and prepare for production test on 16 high-speed channels up to 2.5Gbps.

The 93000 SOC Series also includes integrated, high performance analog instrumentation.

The combined digital and analog test capabilities make the NNTTF Test Facility ideal for testing the most demanding Systems on a Chip comprising digital and mixed-signal functionalities.