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(12) Ulllted States Patent
(10) Patent N0.:
US 8,483,073 B2
Ishikawa et al.
(45) Date of Patent:
Jul. 9, 2013
(54) TEST APPARATUS AND TEST METHOD 2003/0012141 A1 * l/2003 Gerrevink ... .. 370/250 2003/0172177 A1 * 9/2003 Kersley et a1. . 709/236
. - - - - ~ . 2007/0177517 A1 * 8/2007 Manabe .... .. 370/248
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2007/0266137 A1 * 11/2007 Malik ... ..
709/223
asar“ ‘"5 F mama ( )’ lroyas“ 2008/0015798 A1 * 1/2008 Bullock et al. . 702/57 Nakayama, Sa?ama (1 P); Masarll 2008/0137543 A1 * 6/2008 Mitra ... .. 370/242
TSlltO, Saitama (JP) 2008/0235550 A1 9/2008 Yamada et al.
2009/0262743 A1 * 10/2009 U-yehara et al. ... .. 370/394
(73) Assignee: Advantest Corporation, Tokyo (JP) 2009/0328190 A1 * 12/2009 L“! et_al~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ 726/14
2010/0313089 Al* 12/2010 Rajsklet a1. ... .. 714/731
( * ) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
patent is extended or adjusted under 35 EP 1724599 110006
U-S-C- 154(1)) by 217 days- JP H2-250l20 A 10/1990 JP 8335610 12/1996 (21) Appl. No.: 12/569,806 JP 10171735 A 6/1998 Continued
(22) Filed:
Sep. 29, 2009
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OTHER PUBLICATIONS(65) Prior Publication Data Japanese Of?ce Action in a counterpart application No. 2010 US 2010/0142393 A1 ]un_ 10’ 2010 541955, dated Jul. 5, 2011, citing Foreign Patent document Nos. l-2
and JP2002-344563. A machine translation (not reviewed for accu tt h d.
Related US. Application Data racy) 3 ac e
(63) Continuation Of application NO. PCT/JP2009/002547,
(Commued)
?led~ on' Jun. 5, 2009, and a continuation-in-part of
Primary Examineri Jason Mams
appllcatlon No. 12/329,635, ?led on Dec. 8, 2008.
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ABSTRACT
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received data included in the packet received by the receiving
S """""" h h. t’ ’ section, a transmission data processing section that reads data
ee app 10a Ion e or Comp 6 e Seam 15 Dry‘ from the packet data sequence storing section and generates a
. test data sequence by adjusting a predetermined portion of a
(56) References Clted data sequence of a packet to be transmitted to the device under
Us PATENT DOCUMENTS test to have a value corresponding to the received data, and a 6 067 651 A 50000 R h b 31 transmitting section that transmits the test data sequence gen
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erated by the transmission data processing section to the
8,059,547 B2 * 11/2011 Goishi et al. ... .. 370/241 device under test2002/0016941 A1 2/2002 Tsuto
2002/0059545 A1 5/2002 Nakashima et al. 13 Claims, 18 Drawing Sheets
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FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS
JP 11-168527 A 6/1999 JP 2000-112838 A 4/2000 JP 2001-134469 A 5/2001 JP 2002-050196 A 2/2002 JP 2002-152317 A 5/2002 JP 2002-340980 A 11/2002 JP 2002-344563 A 11/2002 JP 2004-120675 A 4/2004 JP 2004-253864 A 9/2004 JP 2006-352290 A 12/2006 JP 2007250124 9/2007 JP 2007-281801 A 10/2007 JP 2008-072191 A 3/2008 TW I266070 11/2006 WO 2008/114701 A1 9/2008 OTHER PUBLICATIONS
English translation of Written Opinion (PCT/ISN237) issued in PCT/JP2009/ 002547 (parent application) mailed in Jul. 2011. International Search Report (ISR) issued in PCT/JP2009/002547 (parent application) mailed in Sep. 2009 for Examiner consideration,
citing U.S. Patent Application Publication No. US2008/ 0235 5 50 and Foreign Patent document Nos. JP2002-344563, JP11-168527, JP10 171735, JP2007-281801, WO2008/114701, and JP2000-112838. Evans, “The New ATE: Protocol Aware”, Test Conference, 2007. ITC 2007. IEEE International, Oct. 21-26, 2007, pp. 1-10, Santa Clara,
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Applicants bring the attention of the Examiners to the following pending U.S. applications; U.S. Appl. No. 12/557,468, ?led Sep. 10, 2009, U.S. Appl. No. 12/569,776, ?led Sep. 29, 2009 and U.S. Appl. No. 12/569,796, ?led Sep. 29, 2009.
!International Search Report (ISR) issued in PCT/JP2009/ 002547(parent application) for Examiner consideration.
Written Opinion (PCT/ISN237) issued in PCT/JP2009/002547 (par ent application).
Japanese Of?ceAction dated Sep. 27, 201 1, in a counterpart Japanese patent application No. 2010-54195 5.
TW Of?ce Action/ Search Report and (Computer) Translation Dated Sep. 25, 2012; Application No. 098141765.
TW Of?ce Action/ Search Report and English Translation Dated Feb. 23, 2013; Application No. 098141756.
