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#132247 - Testing 8051s Responding to: ???'s previous message |
We use two levels of testing.
For production purposes, we have an 8051 program that exercises most of the internal logic (97% fault coverage). That program tells you that you have correctly made what you wanted to make. For engineering development, we have a second set of tests that go through all possible combinations of everything. We run these on A/B comparison boards to check our operation against the target design. That tells you that you made a duplicate of the original part. I have been considering a third set of tests that would run through the ISP port. I would use them during burn-in and reliability studies. |