EDN

In-circuit test helps ensure PCB quality

The limited access afforded to circuit nodes by PCBs densely populated with tiny components seriously challenges traditional PCB test strategies. But while optical and x-ray inspection can help fill ...
Electronic Design

The Point of the Probe: Designing Circuit Boards for Test

Learn about key strategies for testing a PCB design at the system and component level, including the effective deployment of test points. The importance of properly integrating test points into a PCB ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Why Circuit Designers And Test Engineers Need Impedance Analyzers

All engineers know resistance is usually bad news. It generates heat. It reduces efficiency. It wears out components and cuts operational lifetimes. However, resistance is not the only kind of ...
Electronic Design

Circuit Card Diagnostic and Test System Offers Component-Level Diagnostics

PinPoint 3-PXIe offers component-level diagnostics and high-performance functional testing in one system. Astronics released its next-generation circuit card diagnostic and test system, the PinPoint 3 ...

TTM Technologies, Inc. Expands Ultra Small Radio Frequency Components Offering for Telecom, Test and Measurement, and COTS Mil-Aero Applications

TTM Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTMI) (“TTM”), a leading global manufacturer of technology solutions, including mission systems, radio frequency (“RF”) components, RF microwave/microelectronic ...
EDN

Reliability of IEC 61000-4-2 ESD testing on components

Testing for immunity to electrostatic discharge (ESD), from cell phones to computers, is usually done with the IEC 61000-4-2 standard. 1 But IEC61000-4-2 is purely a systems-level test spec, not a ...