Category: Boundary Scan

In my last few blogs, Iโ€™ve talked about the challenges of testing QPI, PCI Express, SATA 3, and DDR3 memory. These buses are common to many Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge motherboard designs. Should test engineers take chances and just not test them?
Serial ATA 3 (SATA 3, or SATA III) is a differential bus running at 6Gbps. Itโ€™s commonly used on computer motherboards, such as notebooks, to connect to mass storage devices. How do you know if your hard disk or flash drive is running at full speed?
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