System for Testing Electrical Products in a Closed Circuit

    公开(公告)号:US20240125839A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-18

    申请号:US18380337

    申请日:2023-10-16

    IPC分类号: G01R31/01 G01R1/20

    CPC分类号: G01R31/01 G01R1/20

    摘要: An emulator system for testing an electrical product in a closed circuit, including a first power electronic structure to emulate a voltage source, connectable to the input of the electrical product; a second power electronic structure to emulate an electronic load, connectable to the output of the electrical product; a direct current bus connected between the first and second structure; a power supply configured to be connected to a general electrical grid and power the bus; and a control module in communication with all elements of the system. Once the electrical product is connected between the emulated source and load, a closed circuit is established in which the emulated source consumes power from the bus to test the product and the emulated electronic load reinjects the power consumed into the bus.

    Method and assessment unit for determining the remaining service life of a capacitor, and system

    公开(公告)号:US11346893B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-31

    申请号:US16766691

    申请日:2018-11-05

    申请人: ZIEHL-ABEGG SE

    发明人: Marco Schnell

    摘要: A method for determining the remaining service life of a capacitor is disclosed, wherein the capacitor may be formed by an electrolytic capacitor. The method includes the stages of: measuring a voltage change across the capacitor during a discharging time, determining a discharging current during the discharging time, determining an actual capacitance of the capacitor on the basis of the voltage change, the discharging current and the discharging time, determining a corrected capacitance of the capacitor from the actual capacitance based on an error correction, wherein influences of the temperature on the capacitance of the capacitor are corrected during the error correction, and determining the remaining service life on the basis of a difference between the corrected capacitance and an initial capacitance of the capacitor. A system including an assessment device, configured to perform this method, and a circuit having at least one capacitor to be assessed are also disclosed.

    Method and apparatus for verifying electronic circuits

    公开(公告)号:US11270056B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-08

    申请号:US16986874

    申请日:2020-08-06

    摘要: A method, system and computer program product, the method comprising: obtaining circuit information, comprising description of groups of pins of electronic chips; obtaining a description of a test comprising a plurality of rules specifying: an identifier, a first group of pins, a second group of pins, a first action to take upon successful interconnection of the first and second groups, and a second action to take upon failure, wherein the first action and second actions are one of: finish with success, finish with failure, and a rule ID of a subsequent rule to check; checking the plurality of rules, comprising checking a sequence of rules starting with a first rule, and wherein each subsequent rule is selected as the first or second action of a preceding rule, in accordance with whether the preceding rule succeeded or failed, respectively; and outputting a result of the plurality of rules.

    Analysis of electro-optic waveforms

    公开(公告)号:US11143700B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-12

    申请号:US16582758

    申请日:2019-09-25

    摘要: An optic probe is used to measure signals from a device under test. The optic probe is positioned at a target probe location within a cell of the device under test, the cell including a target net to be measured and a plurality of non-target nets. A test pattern is applied to the cell with the optic probe a laser probe (LP) waveform is obtained in response. A target net waveform is extracted from the LP waveform by: (i) simulating a combinational logic analysis (CLA) cross-talk waveform to model cross-talk from selected non-target nets by simulating an optical response of the cell to the test pattern with the target net masked; (ii) estimating a cross-talk weight; and (iii) determining a target net waveform by weighting the CLA cross-talk waveform according to the cross-talk weight and subtracting the weighted CLA cross-talk waveform from the LP waveform.

    Screening Method for Electrolytic Capacitors that Maintains Individual Capacitor Unit Identity

    公开(公告)号:US20210302486A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-30

    申请号:US17218374

    申请日:2021-03-31

    申请人: AVX Corporation

    IPC分类号: G01R31/01 G01R31/28

    摘要: A method of screening a lot of capacitors is provided. The method includes measuring a first leakage current of each individual capacitor in a first set of capacitors and calculating a first mean leakage current; removing each of the individual capacitors having a measured first leakage current equal to or above a first predetermined value, forming a second set of capacitors; subjecting the second set of capacitors to a burn in treatment; measuring a second leakage current for each of the individual capacitors in the second set and calculating a second mean leakage current; comparing the second leakage current for each of the individual capacitors to the first leakage current for each of the individual capacitors; and removing each of the individual capacitors having a second leakage current equal to or above a second predetermined value and/or having a second leakage current that does not change by a specified amount compared to the first leakage current for each of the individual capacitors.