Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for testing integrated circuit devices within an environment that is representative of the application environment in which an integrated circuit device will be used. In at least one embodiment, the testing system comprises a second reference integrated circuit device that provides flexibility in testing, allowing only the input to a first reference integrated circuit device of an application system to be tapped and not necessarily both input to and output from the first reference integrated circuit device to be tapped. In some embodiments, the input to the first reference integrated circuit device may be subsequently modified by a controller.

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for testing integrated circuit devices within an environment that is representative of the application environment in which an integrated circuit device will be used.

Abstract: Described embodiments relate to a method of testing fully buffered memory modules that involves placing a buffer device, a test vectors generator, and a switch into a memory device tester, coupling the buffer device and the test vectors generator to the switch inside the tester, coupling the switch to an identical buffer device that is located on a memory module with plurality of DRAM devices, and testing the plurality of DRAM devices and the buffer device of the memory module. An apparatus implementing the method comprises a memory device tester, a memory bus, and a plurality of memory modules under test, the tester and the plurality of memory modules connected to the memory bus in a point-to-point manner, the tester comprising a buffer device, a test vectors generator, and a switch, the tester connected to the memory bus through the switch, each memory module under test having a plurality of DRAM devices and an identical buffer device.