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Today’s digital devices are ever so configurable. In days past, a device with 100-200 registers to configure in a design was considered large. By today’s standards, this is tiny. Many technical reference manuals on a single device exceed 3,000 pages and many of these pages are devoted to the configurability of the part. Chapter upon chapter in these massive tomes describe every possible bit and every conceivable configuration option.

Testing Intel QuickPath Interconnect

Last week I published a blog on detecting defects on PCI Express. Does Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) differ in any way?

Testing PCI Express

PCI Express (PCIe) buses, in particularly Gen3, are susceptible to defects which may be masked from conventional test. What are these defects and how are they detected?

Motherboard failures

Ever have a PC die after a couple weeks or just after the warranty expires? Or perhaps the PC never powered up! Or maybe you have features like USB, a display or camera on the PC that don’t work.  So you attempt to return it to the store where you purchased it only to find that it has to go back to the manufacturer. Ever wonder where those motherboards or laptop returns go? Or do you wonder how or why the faulty product ever shipped in the first place? 

Testing DDR3 and DDR4 memory – Part 2

In my last Blog, I wrote about the iNEMI report on how testing memories is one of the top three problems engineers face today. Why is memory test so important?