ATE jumper programmable interface board

Claim 1

A jumper programmable interface board providing manually programmable electrical interconnections between automated test equipment and the terminals of an integrated circuit device under test (DUT), said jumper programmable interface board comprising: an interface board having a plurality of conductive paths formed thereupon, wherein the integrated circuit DUT is mounted on a major surface of said interface board, wherein jumper terminals are located in close proximity to said DUT, wherein the jumper terminals which are associated with an array for a particular terminal of a DUT are grouped together, wherein adjacent terminals of an array of said jumper terminals are spaced apart by a predetermined distance, wherein one or more of said conductive paths is a signal path adapted to be coupled to said automated test equipment, wherein one or more of said conductive paths is coupled to a power supply source for said DUT, and wherein one or more of said conductive paths is coupled to a circuit ground potential; means for selectably connecting one or more of the various ones of said conductive paths of said interface board simultaneously to each of the various terminals of said DUT, said connecting means including: a plurality of arrays of said jumper terminals, each of said arrays being located on said interface circuit board and associated with a respective DUT terminal, wherein certain ones of said jumper terminals of each array are connected to certain ones of said conductive paths and wherein other ones of said jumper terminals of each array are connected to the terminals of said DUT; and means for manually programming interconnections between said conductive paths and said terminals of said DUT, said manual programming means including a plurality of groups of removable pin-and-socket jumper means, each group of jumper means being associated with a respective DUT terminal for simultaneously coupling each of the jumper terminals, which are connected to the respective DUT terminal, to jumper terminal which are within the same array of jumper terminals associated with a respective DUT terminal and which are connected to said conductive paths.