Agilent Technologies 93000 SOC Series Training Manual page 272

Vector and Pattern Management
Faster debugging
Flexible vector file arrangement
Pattern master file
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10-3 Pattern Management
Pattern Management Overview
SmarTest's general pattern management allows you to store the labels
you want to use in a testflow in different vector files. For example, you
could store every label in a different file.
• Storing labels in different files allows much faster debugging.
• You can store the vector files everywhere in the file system. The
vector files do not have to reside in the "vectors" subdirectory of the
device directory. This provides a lot of flexibility to arrange the
vector files in the file system.
As in a basic scenario the individual tests of the testflow point to vector
labels. However, in a general scenario the list of vector labels is not
simply given by the labels contained in a single vector file. Rather it is
composed of the labels of a number of different vector files.
In this general scenario you have to set up a pattern master file which
specifies
• the different vector files,
• the paths where these vector files reside.
Figure 176
Pattern Master File
path:
/vectors/functional
files:
functional_relaxed
functional_stressed
path:
/vectors/characterization
files:
spec_search
The label list is composed from the vector files
specified in the pattern master file.
Figure 176 Composition of the Label List
Agilent 93000 SOC Series User Training Part 1, October 2004
illustrates this scenario.
10-3 Pattern Management
Label List
Label 1
Label 2
Label 3
Label 4