Apparatus are provided for fatigue testing ferroelectric material in a
wafer, including an on-chip oscillator to provide a bipolar waveform to a
ferroelectric capacitor formed in the wafer, as well as a switching
system to selectively provide external access to the ferroelectric
capacitor. Test methods are also disclosed provided, including measuring
a performance characteristic of a ferroelectric capacitor in the wafer,
providing a bipolar waveform to the ferroelectric capacitor for a number
of cycles using an on-chip oscillator, and again measuring the
performance characteristic after an integer number of cycles of the
bipolar waveform.