Learn about key strategies for testing a PCB design at the system and component level, including the effective deployment of test points.

Two primary types of testing require a PCB test point: bench testing by a technician, or automated testing during manufacturing. In a design-for-test approach, designing test points will ...

Test engineers and design engineers must work together. Designers must recognize the benefits of direct electrical access to as many test points as possible. Test engineers must recognize that, to be ...

Gradually, however, PCB test-point-access problems proved to be more formidable than the problem of fabricating cost-effective boundary-scan-compliant digital devices, and board designers now can ...

Putting “Design” Back Into Design For Test In Today’s PCB Products Techniques to reduce the requirements for test points without sacrificing coverage.