MULTI-CHANNEL ARCHITECTURE, AUTOMATIC TESTING MACHINE, TRANSMITTING METHOD AND SOFTWARE PROGRAM OR PRODUCT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance information transfer technology with respect to technology of providing a transfer clock signal for controlling information exchange in a multi-channel architecture.;SOLUTION: The multi-channel architecture comprises a central facility (1) that is under clock control of a central facility's clock signal, a central transfer clock generator (27) adapted for deriving a central transfer clock signal (SCLK_CB) from the central facility's clock signal, and a set of (n) channels (CH₁, ..., CH_n). Each of the channels comprises a channel transfer clock generator (28) adapted for deriving channel transfer clock signals (SCLK_CH1, ..., SCLK_CHn) from a clock signal of the respective channel, wherein the central facility's clock signal and the clock signals of the channels comprise at least two different clock signals. The transfer control period of the central transfer clock signal is substantially equal to each of the transfer clock periods of the channel transfer clock signals.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI