| The tester baseboard includes sixteen programmable power supplies, one of which is shown in the block diagram below. The D/A controlling each of the supplies allows adjusting the voltage from 0 to 3.9 volts via the PCI host. An A/D monitors the actual output voltage being supplied to the D.U.T. |
| A second A/D on each supply is used to dynamically monitor the current. On-board DRAM stores the measured current values for reading back to the host later. |
| The supplies and their current ratings are: |
| 1-4: 4 Amp (max) | |
| 5-8: 800 mAmp (max) | |
| 9-14: 150 mAmp (max) | |
| 15-16: 100 mAmp (max) - negative supply | |
| The two negative supplies are adjustable over a range of 0 to -4.096 volts, but the current and voltage measurement features are not supported. |
![]() |
|
| The following pages show details of the host-Xilinx interface to the D.U.T. power supplies. In order, the pages show Voltage Set Registers, Voltage Measure Registers and Current Measure Memory. | |