Testing FPGA Devices on an Automatic Test Equipment

With the rapid development of IC technology, the application of FPGA becomes more and more widely, more than 90% embedded system design engineers of the world are using the FPGA for a wide variety of designs. The rapid development of FPGA brings new opportunities and challenges for test manufacturers, a variety of innovative testing technologies and solutions for FPGA have been developed. This paper gives a brief introduction to the FPGA test approach on an Automatic Test Equipment(ATE), describes the method of FPGA configuration mode selection and FPGA configuration code generation, gives a detailed description of the FPGA configuration and testing process with a Virtex-6 FPGA-XC6VLX240T. At last, this paper discusses the DC and Function test methods.