The holiday season is a unique time. For some, it’s the most wonderful time of the year; for others, it may be less pleasant; and, for some, it may even trigger mental health challenges. Regardless of ...

Boundary scan is becoming a useful tool for design engineers. As the development of Design and Test automation tools continues apace, then so too does the convergence of the disciplines that utilise ...

A new concept can execute the same boundary scan test pattern on various ATE systems without modification. Boundary scan is well established and widely used for various board- and system-level test ...

Boundary scan is going crazy. From humble beginnings in 1990 targeted at solving the limited-access problems of traditional board test based on a physical-touch technology such as bed-of-nails and ...

Boundary Scan: What Is It? Boundary scan test techniques were first discussed in the late 1980s. At the time, experts believed that the growing complexity of chips would have a serious effect on an ...

Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Seismic performance. Vertical boundary elements (VBE). Analytical models. Horizontal boundary elements (HBE). Plastic mechanism. Earthquake-resistant designs.