8 Sep
2009
8 Sep
'09
2:23 p.m.
On 9/3/09, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
Atari and Fluke also provided signature analysis on
some of their
schematics. The Fluke 9010 microprocessor analyzer had a signature
analysis option.
We used a Fluke 9010 for initial hardware checkout of COMBOARDs (the
very 9010 that I still have). We never put the time into it to
generate signatures, though. We just checked ROM (checksums), RAM,
and stuck bus bits, the three simplest and most common symptoms of
manufacturing defects for our product. After that, we just hit "Run
UUT" and used firmware-level diagnostics since we were confident that
the boards would run our code at that point.
Did anyone reading this ever generate signatures for a Fluke 9010, or
did most people just use it the way we did?
-ethan