A History Timeline of Automatic Test Equipment

 

 
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Contents:
1) The Pre-Sputnik Era
 
2) Early Beginnings of the
Semiconductor Test Industry
 
3) Facing the Computer Testing
    Dilemma
 
4) Memory Testing Rears its Head
 
5) The General Purpose Tester Emerges
 
6) Semiconductor Testing Blooms
 
7) Computer Chip Testing Creates Big
    Iron Testers
 
8) Probe Cards Come Into Their Own
 
9) Scalable, System-On-A-Chip Testers
    Arrive
 
10) Into the Future