UM-B-041
SmartBond Production Line Tool
User Manual
Revision 4.8
02-Nov-2022
CFR0012
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© 2022 Renesas Electronics
The Production Line Tool software is a collection of software blocks that interact with each other, as
shown in
. Its
main purpose is to communicate with the PLT hardware and the DUTs to be
able to run the production tests and perform memory operations. The software blocks can be
arranged in four main groups:
●
Red blocks:
User Interface (UI) applications
●
Blue blocks:
Core libraries
●
Green blocks:
Instrument interface libraries
●
Purple blocks:
User defined extensions
Core libraries, instrument interface libraries and user-defined extension APIs can be found in the
HTML help inside the source PLT directory. The User Interface applications block consists of four
application executables. For details, see Section
Table 5: PLT User Interface Application Executables
Short Name
File Name
Description
CFG PLT
SmartBond_PLT_CFG.exe
Configuration application. Load, edit and save the test
parameters and the memory actions to be performed during
device testing.
GUI PLT
SmartBond_PLT_GUI.exe
Graphical User Interface (GUI) application. Performs the
actual device validation and memory programming. Provides
a visual indication of the test results and access to the result
logs.
CLI PLT
SmartBond_PLT_CLI.exe
The same as the GUI PLT but console based.
GU upgrade
GU_fw_upgrade.exe
A Graphical User Interface (GUI) application, which is used to
easily upgrade the firmware of the Golden Unit.
6.2
Software Package Contents
The PLT software release package comes in a compressed folder
SmartBond_PLT_v_X.X.zip
, where
'
X
' represents the version number of the current PLT release.
illustrates the main folders of the PLT software package. Folder
executables
holds all the
executables and libraries needed for the PLT to run on a Windows 7/8/8.1/10 machine. Folder
source
contains the entire source code of the PLT, organized in a Visual Studio Express 2017
solution.
Figure 19: SmartBond PLT Software Package Contents
gives a short description of the files and folders contained in the
executables
directories.
Table 6: Executables Folder Description
File or Folder
Description
ammeter_instr_plugins/
Contains the current measurement instrument DLLs,
used during the current measurement tests.
ammeter_instr_plugins/ammeter_scpi.dll
This is the DLL for taking current measurements using
a DMM that supports the standard SCPI commands. NI-
VISA is also used for this purpose. Example DMM