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A Serial Optical Link Based Memory Test System for High-Speed and Multi-Parallel Test

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Sanghoon Lee *
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Soohaeng Cho
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Ki‐Jae Song
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Eonjo Byun
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SungHo Joo
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Sung-Dong Suh
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Kyoungho Ha
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Se-Jang Oh
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W.S. Lee
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2009.2032788delete
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Abstract

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A novel memory optical test solution is proposed and experimentally evaluated for at-speed DDR2-SDRAM test using a commercial automatic test equipment (ATE). Combination of an optical signal splitting scheme and SerDes (Serializer/De-Serializer) technique based on FPGA (Field programmable gate array) allows the high-speed multi-parallel memory test with reduced channel resources. Owing to the SerDes, optical fiber channels are reduced by more than 87 percent and the number of optical modules including transmitter/receiver dramatically decrease to 95 percent, compared with a conventional optical test interface system. Furthermore, the proposed system can optically expand the tester resource by 4 times using a 1 4 optical splitting scheme. We evaluated the signal integrity of 28 layer PCB operating at 3.125 Gbps with three-dimension electromagnetic simulation to obtain more reliable system for memory testing. Consequently, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, we realized an optical SerDes interconnect system for a memory test tester and demonstrated an actual write/read function test of DDR2-SDRAM.
Keywords:
Field programmable gate array (FPGA)
memory test
optical transmitter/receiver
SerDes (serializer/deserializer)

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Journal of Lightwave Technology
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samsung
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Yonsei University
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