When developing a new board, many problems can occur. Bare, unpopulated boards can have shorts and opens that can cause circuits not to work or software to fail once the board is populated. After ...

The cost of manufacturing printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) has always been a concern for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and contract manufacturers (CM). This is one of the reasons why ...

Companies specializing in circuit board and system design-for-test (DFT) tools are pursuing a variety of strategies to serve test and debug applications based on innovations they announced over the ...

At Alcatel-Lucent, we test chassis-level products that provide 42 board slots on a midplane, essentially a passive backplane that accepts boards on its front and rear sides. Thirty-four of those slots ...

The Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) formed in Europe in the late 1980s. Up until that time, most printed circuit boards (PCBs) were populated with chips that had exposed pins that were soldered through ...

The traditional approach to moving scan test data from chip-level pins to core-level scan channels is under pressure due to the dramatic rise in design size, design complexity, and test adaptation. To ...