Minutes from our STIL.4 teleconference call on 9/6/2002.

Planning on attending ITC - Monday the 7th: Dave Dowding, Ernie Wahl, Daniel Fan (may be a few others, and may be some conflict with some of the other working-group meetings)

WebEX - Dave: we can start a WebEX session - as necessary - with just a few minutes of setup time.

Multisite coordination is occuring between the subgroup and with Tony Taylor of the .1 and .3 groups.

Dave is coordinating with Rohit Kapur in the .6 group.

Regarding the May 14th Floc control issues.

8. What are the highest level entry points into the flow? (Load, StartOfTest, Unload)

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Ernie - sees this as a phase1/phase2 issue. To just test a device then StartOfTest is the only one necessary. If we are trying to define a programming language, then these additional entry points are appropriate.

Tom - initialization is useful as a separate entry point.

Dave - my experience with a graphical flow system - what are the elements of an overall test flow that we need such as power sequencing.

Ernie - in the 1450.2 (dc levels), the power sequencing is defined.

Dave - there may be relays and other connections that the dc levels don't account for, and those are necessary. So we should add startup (powerup) and end of test (powerdown).

Ernie - but these could be implemented in a way that is handled via a single entry point (such as by controlling from within a flow).

Don/Ernie - maybe a 'hook' is the same as an entry point.

Tom - may be needs for the production operator to provide information.

Ernie - in my structure each test has a setup

Jim - regarding the entry point issue - perhaps specifying it this way makes it easier to bridge the differences between various vendor's tester languages.

Ernie - for the purposes of pursuing this standard, we should consider these.

Don - we should consider adding power-up and power-down (or start-of-test and end-of-test - to encompass additional activies such as loadboard connections or convey data to a factory automation system).

Dave - let's call those "Connect" and "Disconnect" for now.

Jim - there are things like lot-summary, reset (abort), and user-defined actions (perhaps for external instrumentation).

We'll start on issue #9 on our next call on 9/20 (866 288-7753 code=6928).

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