Factory Firmware Flashing with Pete Staples

And then I would imagine, uh, you know, I would hope that integrated into that is some end of line testing, so they flash them, and then there's some...

At that point, maybe they're integrated, they're assembled, built into the assembled instrument, and then maybe there's some end of line testing at the end of that.

Yeah.

Maybe not at the board level.

And that's all over the place.

So sometimes it's another station, or you can have one fairly complex station.

And we think if you're doing in-circuit testing, like if you're putting in a bed of nails, that's a, a unique opportunity.

So we do oftenHit it with a battery of tests as well as flashing the firmware because you've taken the trouble of aligning all these pogo pins and test points, and it's connected to a computer.

You might as well do everything you can in that step, even if it prolongs the test, it's so worth it to get that c- comprehensive set up or comprehensive test done at that time.

So you've, you've just, um, mentioned a couple of terms that I'm not sure everybody's familiar with, but what do you guys have in mind? Should we sort of keep going into more detail on the testing later and, and sort of just acknowledge that there is stuff that we're going to explain later, or should we go into depth now?

I, I think if we talk about the flashing itself, that's, it's easy to get into...

Like, test gets quite varied, and I'm, I'm worried we'd spend the hour [laughs] talking about tests.

And, uh, so if we...

That's, [laughs] that's why the factory firmware flashing is kinda what I put out there to remind myself, like, that's a pretty big topic already.

[laughs]

We'll, we'll get back to...

We'll have you back on for a future episode, and we'll talk about-

Exactly

... in-factory testing.

Exactly.

What you're saying is-

There we go

... we need to invite you back.

[laughs]

All right.

And then I would imagine, uh, you know, I would hope that integrated into that is some end of line testing, so they flash them, and then there's some...

At that point, maybe they're integrated, they're assembled, built into the assembled instrument, and then maybe there's some end of line testing at the end of that.

Yeah.

Maybe not at the board level.

And that's all over the place.

So sometimes it's another station, or you can have one fairly complex station.

And we think if you're doing in-circuit testing, like if you're putting in a bed of nails, that's a, a unique opportunity.

So we do oftenHit it with a battery of tests as well as flashing the firmware because you've taken the trouble of aligning all these pogo pins and test points, and it's connected to a computer.

You might as well do everything you can in that step, even if it prolongs the test, it's so worth it to get that c- comprehensive set up or comprehensive test done at that time.

So you've, you've just, um, mentioned a couple of terms that I'm not sure everybody's familiar with, but what do you guys have in mind? Should we sort of keep going into more detail on the testing later and, and sort of just acknowledge that there is stuff that we're going to explain later, or should we go into depth now?

I, I think if we talk about the flashing itself, that's, it's easy to get into...

Like, test gets quite varied, and I'm, I'm worried we'd spend the hour [laughs] talking about tests.

And, uh, so if we...

That's, [laughs] that's why the factory firmware flashing is kinda what I put out there to remind myself, like, that's a pretty big topic already.

[laughs]

We'll, we'll get back to...

We'll have you back on for a future episode, and we'll talk about-

Exactly

... in-factory testing.

Exactly.

What you're saying is-

There we go

... we need to invite you back.

[laughs]

All right.