Production test of a finished electronic product often involves two techniques: in-circuit test (ICT) and functional component test (FCT). The ICT technique examines a non-powered circuit board to ...

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Over the last decade, there has been a move away from powered-up digital in-circuit vector testing to unpowered analog-based (vectorless) device-pin opens testing for large and sometimes small digital ...

As chips become more heterogeneous with more integrated functionality, testing them presents increasing challenges — particularly for high-speed system-on-chip (SoC) designs with limited test pin ...

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 ...

Many books cover functional testing techniques, but relatively few also cover technical testing. “The Software Test Engineer’s Handbook, 2nd Edition” (US$49.95, 560 pages) from O’Reilly fills that gap ...