Semi-ATE

Semiconductor Automated Test Equipment

Semi-ATE is a tester- and instruments AGNOSTIC framework for Semiconductor ATE ASIC testing projects.

This means that the system is not build around a specific instrument (let's consider an ATE tester for a moment as a super instrument), it rather focuses on organizing semiconductor testing in such a way that all use- (and special) corner cases have their well known place. This enables the users (read: DE's, TCE's, TE's & PE's) to focus on the REAL work, being the writing of good, fast and stable tests. Organizing tests into test-programs and test-programs in to flows is handled by wizards, so the only code that needs writing is the actual test! (motto: Code is our enemy)

The Semi-ATE package is written purely in Python (noarch) and provides besides libraries also a plugin to the Spyder IDE.

Packages

The Semi-ATE project consists of several packages. When writing this document the following packages are maintained by the Semi-ATE project:

• semi-ate-common
• semi-ate-project-database
• semi-ate-sammy
• semi-ate-plugins
• semi-ate-testers
• semi-ate-spyder
• semi-ate-apps-common
• semi-ate-control-app
• semi-ate-master-app
• semi-ate-test-app

Installation

Installation of the packages can be achieved via conda or pip.

Installation using pip

Each package can be installed using python -m pip install <package-name>:

python -m pip install semi-ate-common
python -m pip install semi-ate-project-database
python -m pip install semi-ate-sammy
python -m pip install semi-ate-plugins
python -m pip install semi-ate-testers
python -m pip install semi-ate-spyder
python -m pip install semi-ate-apps-common
python -m pip install semi-ate-control-app
python -m pip install semi-ate-master-app
python -m pip install semi-ate-test-app

Or all at once:

python -m pip install semi-ate-common semi-ate-project-database semi-ate-sammy semi-ate-plugins semi-ate-testers semi-ate-spyder semi-ate-apps-common semi-ate-control-app semi-ate-master-app semi-ate-test-app

Installation via Conda

To be defined

Sammy

Sammy is part of the Semi-ATE project. It provides some command line tool and also a library. Sammy's purpose is to generate python-code. This is done by the help of the jinja2 template engine. Further it is used for updating/changing Semi-ATE projects databases form the semi-ate-project-database package.

Sammy is a required by the semi-ate-spyder plugin of the Semi-ATE project.

Using the CLI

The sammy cli is used for generating new test program projects or for the migration of some former projects

1. Generating New Projects

   > sammy generate new <project-name>
   

   The above command will generate some empty project called <project-name\>

2. Migrating some project

   > cd /path/to-existing/project-name/
   > sammy migrate