URI Graduate Courses on Testing

Two graduate courses (ELE540 and ELE541) will be offered at the URI Kingston Campus and/or on site at Cherry Semiconductor. These courses are regular URI graduate level courses. They can also be offered at URI Providence Campus if there is sufficient demand. Off campus courses require 15 students to run.
ELE540 Electronic Testing I:   Foundation   (3 or 4 credits)
Design verification, product testing and quality assessment of digital, analog and mixed signal devices at chip and board levels. Defect and fault modeling, test vector generation, scan designs, design-for-testability, IEEE 1149.X (boundary scan) and built-in self test (BIST).

ELE541 Electronic Testing II:   Physics and Instruments   (4 credits)
Advanced topics in electronic testing. Chip structures, current testing, thermal testing, unpowered testing, low voltage testing, noise, test synthesis, bench testing and automated test equipment (ATE). Students design and demonstrate a semiconductor production test system using ATE.