Category: Intel® IBIST

Testing SATA 3

Alan Sguigna

September 9, 2012
2:27 pm

Serial ATA 3 (SATA 3, or SATA III) is a differential bus running at 6Gbps. It’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?

Testing Intel QuickPath Interconnect

Alan Sguigna

August 26, 2012
3:11 pm

Last week I published a blog on detecting defects on PCI Express. Does Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) differ in any way?

Testing PCI Express

Alan Sguigna

August 16, 2012
8:16 pm

PCI Express (PCIe) buses, in particularly Gen3, are susceptible to defects which may be masked from conventional test. What are these defects and how are they detected?

Testing DDR3 and DDR4 memory – Part 2

Alan Sguigna

August 3, 2012
4:52 pm

In my last Blog, I wrote about the iNEMI report on how testing memories is one of the top three problems engineers face today. Why is memory test so important?

Pollution, Power Margins, and SerDes Problems

Alan Sguigna

May 20, 2012
8:59 pm

PCI Express Loopback and PCI-SIG

Eric Johnson

April 18, 2012
2:01 pm

When Gigabit Ethernet isn’t fast enough

Alan Sguigna

March 25, 2012
2:43 pm

My neighbor’s son ripped out all the Cat 5e cable in his house and replaced it with Cat 6 cable. Why did he do that?

What is Board Bring-Up, and why does it take so long?

Alan Sguigna

March 21, 2012
3:48 pm

Board bring-up is a phased process whereby an electronics system is repeatedly tested, validated and debugged, in order to achieve readiness for manufacture. This process can take so long that a product never gets to market because it is succeeded by the next generation...

Overclockers Unite!

Alan Sguigna

January 29, 2012
4:31 pm

The new Sandy Bridge E (Enthusiast) processors are a gamer’s delight. With the new LGA2011 socket and X79 chipset, Intel Sandy Bridge-E series processors come with enhanced performance overclocking support. But is it worth the money?

Your laptop – are you getting what you paid for?

Alan Sguigna

January 1, 2012
3:49 pm

Many of us got new laptops, e-readers, tablets, and other electronics toys as gifts over the holidays. But do these machines run as fast as they’re supposed to?

Category: Intel® IBIST

Testing SATA 3

Testing Intel QuickPath Interconnect

Testing PCI Express

Testing DDR3 and DDR4 memory – Part 2

Pollution, Power Margins, and SerDes Problems

PCI Express Loopback and PCI-SIG

When Gigabit Ethernet isn’t fast enough

What is Board Bring-Up, and why does it take so long?

Overclockers Unite!

Your laptop – are you getting what you paid for?

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