An educational perspective on in-circuit testing

The increasing use of CADMAT tools in the production environment presents a major challenge in personnel training. Electronics manufacturers introducing ATE are quickly made aware of the scarcity of test engineers experienced in using this equipment and of the need for rapid training to increase the pool of available talent. The paper gives consideration to the ways in which ATE training might be implemented and an outline scheme is described for a currently operating three-day course on in-circuit testing.