Abstract: A tuning circuit for setting a signal propagation time on a signal line in an integrated circuit, particularly a DRAM circuit, has a transistor and a capacitor. A control connection of the transistor is connected to a control unit for the purpose of switchably connecting the capacitor to the signal line through the transistor in order to set the signal propagation time on the signal line on the basis of application of a control signal, generated in the control unit, to the control connection on the transistor.

Abstract: In the case of the present-day trend of miniaturizing housed electronic devices, there is the problem that the contact spacings between the terminal pins becomes smaller and smaller and are no longer visible optically. As a result, it also becomes more difficult to solder the contacts of correspondingly designed contact bases, which for example, are designed as test bases, to the individual conductor tracks of the printed circuit board. Possible faulty soldering points, short circuits or interruptions have hitherto been tracked down by laborious manual measurement using the TDR method. The invention proposes producing a test device in which in each case two terminal pins are connected to a short-circuiting bridge. The test device is inserted into the contact base and connects two signal paths of the printed circuit board on which the propagation time of a reflected wave can be measured.

Abstract: In the case of the present-day trend of miniaturizing housed electronic devices, there is the problem that the contact spacings between the terminal pins becomes smaller and smaller and are no longer visible optically. As a result, it also becomes more difficult to solder the contacts of correspondingly designed contact bases, which for example, are designed as test bases, to the individual conductor tracks of the printed circuit board. Possible faulty soldering points, short circuits or interruptions have hitherto been tracked down by laborious manual measurement using the TDR method. The invention proposes producing a test device in which in each case two terminal pins are connected to a short-circuiting bridge. The test device is inserted into the contact base and connects two signal paths of the printed circuit board on which the propagation time of a reflected wave can be measured.

Abstract: A tuning circuit for setting a signal propagation time on a signal line in an integrated circuit, particularly a DRAM circuit, has a transistor and a capacitor. A control connection of the transistor is connected to a control unit for the purpose of switchably connecting the capacitor to the signal line through the transistor in order to set the signal propagation time on the signal line on the basis of application of a control signal, generated in the control unit, to the control connection on the transistor.