Continuity monitoring system
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 5/1/2005
Typically used with accelerated stress testing equipment, the Continuity Monitoring System (CMS) detects solder and connection faults due to cracks, degradation, misalignment, and oxidation. The CMS simultaneously monitors for discontinuities, while measuring and recording resistance for thousands of channels in parallel. Not only does the CMS accurately detect discontinuity events of intermittent solder joint and connection failures as short as 100 ns, but it also measures and logs resistance for trend analysis and validation of hard failures. Each CMS module has 32 channels, and each chassis accommodates up to 11 modules, or 352 channels. Multiple chassis can be rack-mounted for applications requiring higher channel counts. Thermotron, www.thermotron.com/pts.
