Methods for backplane interconnect testing

Details Methods for backplane interconnect testing Methods for backplane interconnect testing

1996-10-18

1998-11-24

Nguyen, Hoa T.

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3241581, G01R 3128

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058417885

ABSTRACT:
A backplane testing method is provided in which test vectors are applied to individual circuit boards in a system while remaining circuit boards in the system are disabled. The signals on all receivers in the system are observed during testing. The circuit boards are connected to a test bus in a multi-drop arrangement, so that individual circuit boards can be addressed using slave interfaces. A walking enable technique is used to systematically toggle all of the drivers on the circuit boards. An intraboard testing technique is used for applying test vectors including an all 0's vector, an all 1's vector, and a series of test vectors generated from a binary counting sequence. Backplane faults are identified by comparing the observed receiver signals to the signals expected in response to the applied test vectors.

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