To help make testing these parts a little easier, [IMSAI Guy] has come up with this clever little SMD test fixture. It’s designed to hook up to another custom board, which in turn connects to a ...

But, vacuum-lid is a good, low-cost solution to large pin-counts as long as access to the PCB during test is not required. About 50% of the fixtures we make are the vacuum-lid type.” Also in the ...

You can use one high-pin-count fixture and a single test program running on one high-node-count tester to test a board in one pass. The use of two low-pin-count fixtures can seem attractive because of ...

Onboard indicators such as an LED connected to the power supply’s power good pin provide an easy indicator of a successful short injection and subsequent recovery. Figure 3 illustrates an example of ...

Tube samples can be tested with flat jaws if a pin is inserted through them ... In addition to recommending the test method, particular testing standards indicate a fixture design to be made ...

On the other hand, to “MacGyver” a solution, the user would need to obtain an ATE test fixture mechanical interface and assemble it for manual use, then modify a standard spring pin ATE cable assembly ...

Small-scale ECOs are much easier to make even in high pin-count scenarios (Figure 2 ... than the diameter of the probe shaft. When test fixtures are manufactured with this process, probes ...

U.S.) is providing a glimpse of its latest innovations in composite materials testing, such as testing fixtures and the company’s MTS ... for establishing and sustaining global, standardized test ...