Testing

Automobiles present a very harsh environment for the electrical and electronic devices incorporated into them. Two well-established industry standards that define a wide range of electrical disturbance tests are ISO-7637-2 and ISO-16750-2.

The market for automotive vehicles is growing rapidly in China, especially the market for passenger vehicles. This article provides an overview of the general regulations and new rules that will come into effect.

Verification of electrical safety testing equipment is a procedure that is often overlooked by manufacturers. Running test verification is crucial to ensuring that a safety device will properly detect product failures. While the task of setting up a test verification can seem daunting, it’s a simple matter of having the necessary equipment and procedures in place so that the process is easy to follow.

Why hasn’t multi-burst testing to simulate lightning been more widely done? And why hasn’t it made its way into standards?

It is a dramatic understatement to say that the world of electronic devices continues to go more portable. The mantra of smaller, lighter, and faster shows itself through the myriad of devices we use as we move through our world outside of traditional work and home environments.

This article will summarize the major changes of the new revision of ISO/IEC 17025-2005, present the new outline of the standard and will discuss the new concept of a “risk-based” approach of implementing requirements.

This article will discuss the ways in which a company can be organized and prepared to meet its post-sale duties and to undertake a field corrective action program or a recall.

How can we provide a quantitative measure of ESD robustness but control the rising test times while preventing major overstress and wear out from thousands of ESD strikes per IC?

The charged device model describes the electrostatic discharge (ESD) event that occurs when an integrated circuit (IC) is rapidly charged or discharged through a single pin to a metallic surface.

The automotive industry and individual automobile manufacturers must meet a variety of EMC requirements.