I found an interesting article on the pros and cons of ICT recently at http://www.electroviews.com/test/in-circuit.php. The document is a little dated (it looks like it was written in 2007), so I thought I would capture the essence of what was listed in this paper and add in some comments as well:
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April 2011
Apr 24, 2011
Apr 17, 2011
Is your laptop highly available?
Maybe not yet, but…
I spent last weekend in gadget hell. First it was the garage door opener. Then my broadband home router started acting up. Finally I had to help my son with his laptop ‘blue screening’. I’m fed up and I’m not going to take it anymore…
Apr 09, 2011
The Limitations of ICT
Is that old bed-of-nails rather prickly these days?
Legacy In-Circuit Test (ICT) has been diminishing in value for a long time. Let’s explore some of the current technical issues with ICT as test access on new circuit board designs continues to disappear.
Apr 03, 2011
Debugging on Steroids
ScanWorks Embedded Diagnostics is embedded firmware which uses a CPU’s debug port to access a system’s architecturally visible registers, memory and I/O. Acting as an “embedded JTAG-based debugger”, it can be operated remotely from anywhere and at anytime and troubleshoots the most difficult-to-debug hardware and software failures.
