Test engineers have a variety of options for testing printed-circuit boards—ranging from in-circuit testers to the latest in embedded-instrument technology. Despite the decline of PCB physical access ...

[Quinn Dunki]’s Veronica, a homebrew computer based on the 6502 CPU, is coming along quite nicely. She’s just finished the input board that gives Veronica inputs for a keyboard and two old Nintendo ...

Boundary scan offers clear advantages over technologies that require physical contact with a unit under test. It is also useful for ferreting out faults among the expensive, advanced semiconductor ...

A few years ago, the semiconductor lingo for automated test equipment (ATE) PCBs was “load boards.” But more recently, they’ve become increasingly known in semiconductor parlance as “device interface ...

We’ve said it before: building one-offs is different from building at scale. Even on a small scale. There was a time when it was rare for a hobbyist to produce more than one of anything, but these ...