Chapter 20. Inspection Test

Living with ever-increasing component complexity and board density, along with decreased nodal access, test engineers must face the reduced efficiency of traditional test strategies. Yet the need to ship good products has become more critical than ever. Customers expect that their electronic products will work the first time without difficulty, and that they will continue to work with a minimum of fuss.

To cope, manufacturers are turning to inspection as complement or supplement to traditional test. Inspection, when it works, offers numerous advantages over test. It requires neither bed-of-nails nor edge-connector fixtures. Good-board criteria against which you compare the board under test may come from a known-good ...

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