Patent 7888947 was granted and assigned to Teradyne on February, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for use with automatic test equipment (ATE) includes programming the ATE to generate bursts, each of which corresponds to a signal characteristic produced by the ATE, obtaining power levels for the bursts, and determining if the power levels for the bursts correspond to expected power levels for signal characteristics corresponding to the bursts.