3 Feb
2017
3 Feb
'17
1:12 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 2:00 PM, dwight <dkelvey at hotmail.com> wrote:
I once worked with a device that came close to telling
you
that U15 was failing.
It was called a signature analyzer.
It was good as a first pass production tester.
It required that the device under test be put in a state where the signals
had predictable waveforms, since it basically was just computing a 16-bit
hash of samples of the waveforms, referenced to clock and start signals.
Typically the device under test would be put in a special signature test
mode to do that.
It needed a pin bed to match the board under test.
For automated full-board testing, yes. But signature testing was also used
with a probe on individual signals for field diagnostic purposes.