Proper Practice for Preventing Probing Pitfalls

When visiting engineering labs world-wide, I am often asked to characterize or debug a system. Before I do any of that, I always take a very close look at the connection to the device under test. In about 25% of my characterization sessions, the gotcha I run into is improper connection to the device under test. Here are some of the most common, along with some tips for avoiding them.

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