The
large assortment of miscellaneous equipment
at our disposal includes: The obvious like
Multi-Meters, Digital oscilloscopes to a
slew of up-to-date computers, extensive software
bundles, specific types of chip programmers,
debug equipment and a line of home-brewed
testing equipment.
We use Advantech’s Lab Tool 48 XP Universal
programmer to program pretty much any through-hole
chip we use; from microprocessors and PICs
to GALs and PALs to ROMs. We also have a
variety of P&E’s Cyclone programmers, each
one for a different family of processors.
These are used to program surface mount microprocessors
in-circuit. Our programming department has
many different background debug modules (BDMs)
for the microprocessors we currently use.
For some of the more advanced products we
have designed, we have incorporated the ability
to program and update the firmware onboard
with a palm pilot (with our custom software),
or with a small flash card (which we manufacture).
Our noise testing equipment consists of two major
pieces of equipment. The Schaffner ESD gun and
the Schaffner Burst Generator. The ESD gun is
used for testing susceptibility of a product
to electrostatic discharge. The Burst Generator
is used to induce a large range of electrical
noise into a product to determine how susceptible
it is to electromagnetic interference, and how
it reacts.
The
large assortment of miscellaneous equipment
at our disposal includes: The obvious like
Multi-Meters, Digital oscilloscopes to a
slew of up-to-date computers, extensive software
bundles, specific types of chip programmers,
debug equipment and a line of home-brewed
testing equipment.