- 360 pages
- English
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Building a Successful Board-Test Strategy
About This Book
Written in a clear and thoughtful style, Building a Successful Board-Test Strategy, Second Edition offers an integrated approach to the complicated process of developing the test strategies most suited to a company's profile and philosophy. This book also provides comprehensive coverage of the specifics of electronic test equipment as well as those broader issues of management and marketing that shape a manufacturer's "image of quality."In this new edition, the author adds still more "war stories, " relevant examples from his own experience, which will guide his readers in their decisionmaking. He has also updated all technical aspects of the first edition, covering new device and attachment technologies, new inspection techniques including optical, infrared and x-ray, as well as vectorless methods for detecting surface-mount open-circuit board failures. The chapter on economics has been extensively revised, and the bibliography includes the latest material on this topic.*Discusses ball-grid arrays and other new devices and attachment technologies*Adds a comprehensive new chapter on optical, infrared, and x-ray inspection*Covers vectorless techniques for detecting surface-mount open-circuit board failures
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Chapter 1 What Is a Test Strategy?
- Chapter 2 Test Methods
- Chapter 3 Inspection as Test
- Chapter 4 Guidelines for a Cost-Effective "Test" Operation
- Chapter 5 Reducing Test-Generation Pain with Boundary Scan
- Chapter 6 The VMEbus eXtension for Instrumentation
- Chapter 7 Environmental-Stress Screening
- Chapter 8 Evaluating Real Tester Speeds
- Chapter 9 Test-Program Development and Simulation
- Chapter 10 Test-Strategy Economics
- Chapter 11 Formulating a Board-Test Strategy
- Chapter 12 Test-Strategy Decisions
- Chapter 13 Conclusions
- Appendix A: Time-Value-of-Money Tables
- Appendix B: Acronym Glossary
- Works Cited and Additional Readings
- Index