Functional printed-circuit-board (PCB) test has had a seesaw relationship with other board-test techniques. When surface-mount parts and ball-grid arrays first appeared, limited circuit-node access ...

SE: Why is applying functional test content so challenging today? Ruiz: There are a couple of different factors that make successfully applying functional patterns on the tester a challenge. In fact, ...

Any programmable instrument can be used in a system. But what makes one system-ready and another just a programmable instrument? When developing a functional test system from scratch, you have many ...

For testing PCBs, test engineers have a variety of options ranging from venerable in-circuit testers and flying probers to functional testers and the latest in embedded-instrument technology.

The evolutionary path of semiconductor ATE (automated test equipment) seemed clear at Semicon West, held July 13–15 in San Francisco. Gone are the expensive, big-iron functional testers of yesterday, ...

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