Unraveling the cannot duplicate and retest OK problems by utilizing physics in testing and diagnoses

AUTOTESTCON (Proceedings)

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 550-555

  Ungar, Louis Y ^a   Kirkland, Larry V ^b  

^a ATE Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b WesTest Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cannot duplicate; Diagnoses; Diagnostics; False alarms; Retest OK

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; AUTOMATIC TESTING; DIAMONDS; ERRORS; MAINTENANCE; TESTING;

AUTOMATIC TEST EQUIPMENTS; CANNOT DUPLICATE; DIAGNOSTICS; FALSE ALARMS; FIELD RETURNS; MULTIPLE RUNS; RETEST OK; TEST PROGRAM SETS; UNIT UNDER TESTS;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 57949101916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AUTEST.2008.4662678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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