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- From: khor@bnr.ca (Kyle Hor)
- Subject: Re: What's the deal? My chip says "SX-25"; Norton says "SX-33"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.152504.9786@bmers95.bnr.ca>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:25:04 GMT
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- In article <C0Cos2.2Fw@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- |> Well, the way I look at it is what is the opportunity cost of not
- |> testing a 33MHz failure at 25 MHz? You could 1) throw it away or
- |> 2) test it at 25 MHz and sell it if it passes.
- |>
- |> Its a matter of which would be cheaper: to make another 25 MHz chip
- |> from scratch _and_ test it or to test the reject. Testing the reject
- |> is cheaper, usually, depending on how many of the 33 MHz failures
- |> would pass at 25 MHz.
- |>
- Don't think in terms of 2 distinct stages of testing - at 33MHz and at
- 25MHz. It is all one stage. Depending on the test, it could be a
- single test that grades accoringly.
-
- For example lets take a simple switching speed from low to high. If
- it takes 35ns to switch (low and high voltage levels reference points
- differs in low->high and high->low), then it will fall into the 25MHz
- grade. But if the switching takes only 28MHz then it will fall into
- the 33MHz grade.
-
- In the actual case, the testing is a lot more complex and there are
- hundreds of electrical tests before the chips a graded.
-
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