Flying Probe Testing

Flying probe Test

At some point in the manufacturing process the board needs to be tested to ensure that the elements that make up the board are working to specification, so that when it comes to powering it up there will be a high level of confidence that it will function.

Flying probe testing provides for this. The tester tests for electrical shorts and opens. It also tests the value of the components and their tolerances. If it were possible to test for 100% coverage, and if the design is solid then in theory the board will function as the designer intended without any further test.

However there may be manufacturing process issues on the board or indeed inside the layers of the bare board which have not been caught by the previous external inspection regimes. This is a good point to test and then fix any of those issues.

The flying probe tester will find such faults by probing on the nets on the board, stimulating a small current and measuring the output.

Programme generation is achieved through translation from the original CAD files.