Many people are on the hunt for an automated test system for a laptop motherboard. When beginning the hunt or search for a laptop motherboard automated test system a person can end up confused, befuddled and ultimately lost.
Surprisingly, there is not a great deal of information available in either the real world or on the World Wide Web concerning laptop motherboard automated test systems.
By way of this article, we do provide a bit of preliminary information on laptop motherboard automated test systems. We do not intend this article to be an endorsement of any particular product. Nevertheless, due to the dearth of useful information on laptop motherboard automated test systems, we do examine one typical test system. We provide this information only as a guide to allow a person a starting point in his or her search for useful and well-configured laptop motherboard automated test systems.
The state-of -the-art laptop motherboard automated test system at this writing appears to be MicroMaster from International Test Technologies. The system is an emulator optimized for Debug and tests the components at-speed. (This is according to the test system manufacturer. Please note that we have not done any independent testing of the unit and process itself.)
There is no need to have ICT access points all over the board, or have Boundary Scan implemented in most devices. This tool uses the same Debug port as was used to design it. It is generally called the Debug Port, and can actually be an ITP, BDM, COP or many different but similar names.
It provides ATPG for auto-learn of devices and how they should be tested. It can even program Flash.
Before embarking on an actual purchase of a laptop motherboard automated test system, a person will be better served to do what research he or she can do to determine what system will be best for his or her needs.