There’s no denying how useful surface mount technology is, and how enabling the ability to make really small circuits has become. It comes at a price, though; most of us probably know what it’s like ...

Test and programming fixtures are great time-savers for anyone who needs to deal with more than a handful of PCBs. Instead of plugging in connectors (or awkwardly holding probe tips or wires) to ...

Test engineers, despite decades of attempts to work with designers to make boards more testable, often still have to address over-the-wall designer issues. That is, they receive the designs as faits ...

Many companies face the problem of checking cableforms to see that they are correctly wired up before installing them. I have seen two ways of doing this, both with disadvantages for smaller companies ...

This article summarizes the content of a paper jointly developed and presented by Advantest and Infineon at TestConX 2022. Device under test (DUT) fixtures for ATE systems pose several verification ...