If you've ever tenuously probed an expensive IC in a surface-mount package, you'll appreciate these new test adjuncts from Emulation Technology (ET—Santa Clara, Calif.). It's rolling out test clips ...

One of the most basic tools for tinkering with electronics is a multimeter. Today, even a cheap meter has capabilities that would have been either very expensive or unobtainable back in the 1970s.

Loaded board testing pays for itself by reducing field returns and bone-pile scrap. You seldom read an article about PCBs or semiconductors without encountering test-related phrases and acronyms. Cost ...

As test targets shrink, the benefits of socketless probing technology grow. As technology advances, more and more electronic components that do bigger and better things are hitting the market. At the ...

Santa Clara, CA–Adding to the challenge of developing leading-edge interconnections is the frustration of testing them, whether in debug or verification/validation ...