0-7803-7542-4/02 $17.00 © 2002 IEEE SP1.3 ITC INTERNATIONAL TEST CONFERENCE TESTING THE TESTER Rochit Rajsuman Advantest America R & D Center, Inc. 3201 Scott Boulevard Santa Clara, CA, 95054 The end use of a tester is to test ICs; hence, it is imperative that the tester itself should function correctly. A broad strategy is employed to detect and remove component level faults from various hardw...

We present an adaptive tester for the unateness property of Boolean functions. Given a function f : {0, 1}n → {0, 1} the tester makes O(n log(n)/ε) adaptive queries to the function. The tester always accepts a unate function, and rejects with probability at least 0.9 if a function is ε-far from being unate.

A self-erecting single inverted pendulum (SESIP) is one of typical nonlinear systems. The control scheme running the SESIP consists of two main control loops. Namely, these control loops are swing-up controller and stabilization controller. A swing-up controller of an inverted pendulum system must actuate the pendulum from the stable position. While a stabilization controller must stand the pen...

This study compared the effects produced by two different molar distalizers, namely cervical headgear (CHG) and the intraoral pendulum appliance, associated with fixed orthodontic appliances. The headgear group comprised 30 patients (19 females, 11 males), with an initial age of 13.07 years [standard deviation (SD) = 1.3], treated with CHG and fixed orthodontic appliances for a mean period of 3...

Parent ratings of temperament in infancy and childhood yield evidence for genetic influence in twin studies but not in adoption studies. The present study used the sibling adoption design to investigate teacher and tester ratings of temperament in middle childhood. When each child was 7 years old, ratings on the Colorado Childhood Temperament Inventory were obtained from a teacher and tester fo...

We give a unateness tester for functions of the form f : [n] → R, where n, d ∈ N and R ⊆ R with query complexity O( log(max(d,n)) ). Previously known unateness testers work only for Boolean functions over the domain {0, 1}. We show that every unateness tester for realvalued functions over hypergrid has query complexity Ω(min{d, |R|}). Consequently, our tester is nearly optimal for real-valued f...