Automatic Test Equipment

Table of contents

1. Front Cover
2. Automatic Test Equipment
3. Copyright Page
4. Table of Contents
5. Preface
6. Chapter 1. What is automatic test equipment?
   1. Types of automatic test equipment
   2. Fixtures
   3. Test strategies
   4. Test methods and processes
   5. Basic methods of creating automatic test equipment
   6. Advantages of automatic test equipment systems
7. Chapter 2. Types of automatic teste quipment
   1. Component parts test equipment
   2. Unpackaged assembly test equipment
   3. Packaged assembly test equipment
   4. Maintenance and service tests
   5. Automatic test equipment administration
   6. Type and availability of automatic test equipment
8. Chapter 3. Fixtures
   1. Bed-of-nails fixtures
   2. Moving probe fixtures
   3. Electrical considerations
   4. Mechanical considerations (1/2)
   5. Mechanical considerations (2/2)
9. Chapter 4. Test strategies
   1. Functional test
   2. In-circuit test
   3. Combinational test
   4. Bench-top test
   5. Design for testability
   6. Ad hoc design for testability (1/2)
   7. Ad hoc design for testability (2/2)
   8. Test area management systems
   9. A total company test strategy
   10. Economics of overall test strategy (1/2)
   11. Economics of overall test strategy (2/2)
10. Chapter 5. Test methods and processes
    1. General processes and considerations
    2. Digital testing processes and considerations (1/2)
    3. Digital testing processes and considerations (2/2)
    4. Digital circuits
    5. Analog testing and considerations (1/2)
    6. Analog testing and considerations (2/2)
11. Chapter 6. Computer and instrument buses
    1. Buses
    2. Available buses (1/4)
    3. Available buses (2/4)
    4. Available buses (3/4)
    5. Available buses (4/4)
12. Chapter 7. General-purpose interface bus
    1. Bus structure
    2. Devices: functions and messages
    3. Interface
    4. Bus operation (1/2)
    5. Bus operation (2/2)
    6. Command sequences (1/2)
    7. Command sequences (2/2)
    8. Interface messages and functions
    9. Device-dependent messages
    10. Devices
    11. Size and speed limitations
    12. Hardware
13. Chapter 8. VMEbus
    1. Hardware essentials
    2. Functional modules and data transfer bus cycles
    3. Process cycles
    4. Signals, lines and protocols (1/2)
    5. Signals, lines and protocols (2/2)
    6. Electrical considerations
    7. Side buses
    8. Futurebus+ extended architecture
    9. Further reading
14. Chapter 9. VXIbus
    1. Basic VXIbus system components
    2. Electrical architecture (1/2)
    3. Electrical architecture (2/2)
    4. System buses (1/3)
    5. System buses (2/3)
    6. System buses (3/3)
    7. Mechanical considerations
    8. Power supplies
    9. Devices and communications (1/2)
    10. Devices and communications (2/2)
15. Glossary (1/2)
16. Glossary (2/2)
17. Worldwide addresses (1/2)
18. Worldwide addresses (2/2)
19. Further reading
20. Index