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 ...

Balancing yield and test is essential to semiconductor manufacturing, but it’s becoming harder to determine how much weight to give one versus the other as chips become more specialized for different ...

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 ...