Test Equipment

Test equipment available in our labs is available for various measurement and characterization situations. Much of the equipment was purchased, but some is made available through the Equipment Loan Program of the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC).

Device and Low Frequency Circuit Characterization

• HP4140 pA Meter/DC Voltage Source
• HP4280 1MHz C Meter/C-V Plotter
• HP4145 Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer
• HP4155 Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer
• Low Frequency CV probe station
• HP577 Curve Tracer
• Sony/Tektronix 371 High Power Curve Tracer
• HP8591E Spectrum Analyzer (available under CMC's Equipment Loan Program)
• Audio Precision System-Two
• Wentworth Probe Station
• Teledyne TAC PR-53 Semiautomatic Probe Station
• Keithley 7001 Switch System
• Keithley 616 Digital Electrometer
• Statham Temperature Controlled Chamber
• Tektronix and HP Oscilloscopes, power supplies, function generators, and frequency counters

Digital and mixed-signal Testing (Low Frequency)

• IMS-XL/60 (60MHz) (available under CMC's Equipment Loan Program)
• HP DICE system (50MHz), including
  • HP8180 Data Generator
  • HP8181 Data Generator Extender
  • HP8182 Data Analyzer
  • HP15414 Tristate Unit
• TH1000 Mixed-signal IC Test Head (available under CMC's Equipment Loan Program)

High-frequency measurements

• HP8720B Network Analyzer
• HP6626 System DC Power Supply
• HP8347 RF Amplifier
• HP437 Power Meter
• HP8563 Spectrum Analyzer
• Colby SG8000A Signal Generator
• Colby PG3000A Pulse Generator
• Tektronix 11801 Digital Sampling Oscilloscope
• Wentworth Probe Station
• Cascade Microtech High-frequency Probes
• HP70000 system, including
  • HP70000 mainframe
  • HP70004 display
  • HP70322 Synthesized Signal Generator
  • HP70841 Pattern Generator
• HP53131A 225MHz Universal Counter, with additional 3GHz RF Input Channel

VXI

All VXI (VMEbus EXtensions for Instrumentation) instrumentation is available under CMC's Equipment Loan Program.

• HP9000/745i Controller, including HP VEEtest virtual-engineering environment software, and HP75000 D20 Digital Test Software
• CMC Test Head
• HP E1401A C-Size Mainframe, with 12 slots
• HP E1406A HP75000 Series C Command Module
• HP E1450A HP75000 Series 160MHz Timing Module (quantity: 2)
• HP E1451A HP75000 Series Pattern I/O Module (quantity: 3)
• HP E1452A HP75000 Series Terminating Pattern I/O Module
• Analogic DBS8750 High Precision Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer
• HP E1445A HP75000 Series Arbitrary Waveform Generator
• HP E1430A HP75000 Series C 10 MSa/s ADC+Filter+FIFO (A/D converter)

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