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Let's start off by elaborating on an important facet of reflow profiling that was presented in the April ...

Specifiers of bare printed circuit boards (PCBs) expect their suppliers to deliver boards that are electrically and physically correct, and verified by a final electrical test. ...

Stress in the PC board test environment is a common occurrence. If you are a test engineer, I am sure that issues such as time to market requirements and shrinking test points immediately come to mind. ...

Electrical testing provides valuable fault data for process controls and is the final determination of the product quality level reaching the customer and the consumer. ...

Global market pressures on the PCB industry have forced the development of automated fabrication methods. To guarantee competitive positioning in producing more complex circuits......

Electrical test has evolved into a process within the process of printed wiring board fabrication. Advances in technology such as surface mount, fine lines, and spaces,.....

Test fixtures continue to play a very important role in both the fabrication and assembly of printed circuit boards. Bare-board fixtures check the quality of unpopulated boards before chips are added,......

Throughput is the central problem for flying probe test systems. Generally, increasing test speed represents the greatest challenge for this technology. ...

Printed circuit board materials are mostly constructed from a resin reinforced by a fabric cloth. Epoxy (FR-4), polyimide and cyanate ester are the more common resin systems in use today....