主機板穩定性自動化測試平台

An Embedded System for Automatic Motherboard Testing

鄧進利(CHIN-LEE TENG)

指導教授 ： 鄭福炯

大同大學/電機資訊學院/資訊工程學系所/碩士(2010年)

摘要

x86主機板每年出貨達到上億台，出貨前x86主機板穩定性必須被確認。如果主機板不夠穩定，必須要透過穩定性測試平台來記錄不穩定的記錄及原因，以提供工程人員分析與整合，加快工程人員解決問題的速度。因此穩定性測試系統是非常重要的，一方面可加速工廠的生產流程，減少工廠延遲出貨的問題，另外一方面，可以減少OEM客戶對公司因延遲出貨而提出的賠償。本論文提出一個SOPC嵌入式系統來自動測試x86主機板的穩定性，本系統的優點如下：1.測試平台架設簡單、迅速，2.可同時多台主機板測試，3.測試數據準確率高。

關鍵字

開關機測試 ； 穩定性 ； SOPC ； 關機測試 ； 關機測試

並列摘要

Taiwan exports more than one hundred million x86 motherboards every year. The stability of the motherboard must be confirmed before shipping. If motherboards are not stable (such as hanging while booting from the BIOS), the causes of instability must be identified, analyzed and fixed by firmware engineers. Thus, a good stability test system for x86 motherboards is extremely important for not only speeding up the production process but also avoiding the financial punishment of late delivery from OEM customers.
This paper proposes an SOPC-based embedded system for automatic stability testing of x86 motherboards. Our approach has the following advantages: firstly, our testing platform is very easy to install; secondly, our system can concurrently test up to four motherboards; and finally, high accuracy on stability test can be easily achieved.

並列關鍵字

SOPC ； Motherboard ； Stability Test ； Embedded system

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