A contactor apparatus used in automatic testing of integrated circuits is
provided. The invented apparatus, or assembly, enables the rapid
automated test transition from testing a plurality of devices of a first
body shape to a plurality of devices having a second body shape, where
both types of devices have electrical contacts arranged within a device
contact plane and according to a common grid pattern. The common grid
pattern may be arranged along an X and an orthogonal Y axis, where
contact points are spaced at identical intervals along each axis, e.g. a
contact point at each 0.8 millimeter by 0.8 millimeter location, or where
the contact points are spaced at differing intervals in each dimension,
e.g. a plurality of contact points located at 0.8 millimeter lengths
along the X axis and at 1.2 millimeter lengths along the Y axis. The
contactor may have a plurality of apertures useful to simultaneously test
a plurality of devices.