Re: Fairy IC test card software

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Stephen Shaw replied:

Cool!  ;-)

Actually, I was thinking more in the direction of reverse engineering the
software, to determine how to specify setups and test patterns for chips.
As long as the data format isn't too weird (?), it should then be possible
to add new chips and even new kinds of chips to the repertoire.

>Michael, the card has a "potted" area in the middle of it. I had a few non
>operative Fairy cards so I "sacrificed" one (shades of Mark Cummings! and I
>don't live in Australia!) by pouring "depotting" compound over the area. It
>also melted certain components! Back to the drawing board....
>
>On 01 Jul 2001 16:01:07 GMT, Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>
>> Has anyone reverse-engineered the Fairy IC Tester card software enough
>> to determine how the IC test data is stored?  I'd like to try extending it
>> a bit, particularly for RAMs.  (Which the manual says it will test, but I
>> haven't found out how to specify...)

-michael

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