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The design-and-test merger 6/26/2008

An effective design-and-test strategy will require a holistic effort across the entire chip-design and -production ecosystem.

Pointy tips: How to straighten bent oscilloscope probe tips 5/29/2008

My high-speed-oscilloscope probes were bent so badly that they looked like elf shoes. Here's how I fixed them.

Scrape it: How to probe a microstrip trace with no accessible test points or vias 4/28/2008

The lowly scraper is the best tool for the job. Given the right curvature, you can scrape a path just wide enough to reveal a trace under test without exposing other nearby features.

External instruments here to stay 3/20/2008

Whatever the interface standard, real external instruments and systems that gather test data and external software that performs yield-learning and other analysis tasks must supplant embedded instruments.

Setting up your oscilloscope to measure jitter 10/3/2007

Because real-time oscilloscopes are workhorses in any laboratory, it’s important to know how to get the most out of them. Jitter measurements are particularly sensitive to their environment.

Roll back the lead-free initiative: 12 ROHS myths 9/13/2007

I'm all for environmental legislation when it actually helps. When it doesn't help, and it harms something else, I question the result.

Internet video provides another channel for Design Idea delivery 6/7/2007

Our goal with video and other multimedia presentations is to provide you information in whichever ways you want to consume it.

Diagnostic testing (and tasting?) 4/26/2007

Human senses play a smaller role than they once did in diagnosing digital systems, but the philosophy remains the same: Use every tool at your disposal.

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