PCB test and troubleshooting system - flying probe for SMD Through hole and BGA technology

GRS500 Flying probe PCB test and repair system

How to troubleshoot complex PCB assemblies.

GRS500 flying probe PCB test and repair system

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Polar GRS500 works with Adobe Reader™ 9.0

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Click picture for typical installation SMD Mixed technology BGA	PCB test and repair system GRS500 Increase prototype yields Troubleshoot complex circuit boards Reduce time to market Compatible with over 30 CAD formats Troubleshoot PCB assemblies - fast You know that troubleshooting complex PCBs is a skilled task. The GRS is designed to help you rapidly home-in on a fault giving you maximum time to put your skills to ‘best use’ in getting your boards up and running, thereby saving time, cost and allowing you to maximize your production yields.
Prototypes, short production runs, new product launches all present a challenge in the manufacturing environment. How do you ensure that pcb test programs and fixtures are up and running simultaneously with a product production launch? The new GRS500 from Polar is designed to help you. Designed especially to troubleshoot in the following situations — prototype boards, newly launched products and production runs that are too small to justify traditional ATE. This facilitates comprehensive test with the advantage of low set-up times and cost. The key is the extensive use of CAD data combined with simple and proven troubleshooting technology. When production ramps up, the GRS500 is an invaluable asset supporting your functional test and maximising yields. Troubleshooting your circuit boards with the GRS500 Designed to help troubleshoot complex boards when fixture based tools are not a viable solution, the GRS500 is designed to help you compare the characteristics of good and faulty PCBs, using nodal impedance test, and a "Videosection" technique which presents you with high resolution images of a good board for use in live video comparison with the board under test, - finally powerful CAD based repair software helps you track down the position of the fault on the suspect net. Versatile probing system Designed to troubleshoot on all technologies, the GRS Probing system features: • A 100mm flying probe height allowing clear flight over the tallest components. • Two live video cameras • Camera one for programming and inspection • Camera two for live view of probing position The GRS capability includes troubleshooting on technology from SMT, through hole and BGA (the GRS automatically assigns test points to all accessible nets connected to BGA).
Click for full screen	"Virtual Xray" GRS graphical repair software allows you to highlight a faulty net, and a Virtual Xray facility shows you the path of the selected net even as it routes through inner layers
	Videosectioning In addition to making electrical comparisons of good and faulty boards the GRS uses its onboard cameras to take a high resolution image of the entire board, sections of the image can be selected for live comparison with boards under test at a later date, this is ideal when checking for switch positions or physical component damage.
Financial performance Designed from the outset for long life, flexibility and low cost of ownership, the GRS500 will help reduce your costs for many years and is suitable for use on a wide variety of PCBs You stand to benefit most if you can answer yes to more than 2 of the following criteria Make high value added circuit boards Often introduce new products Specialise in short series production Utilise functional test or ATE Use boundary scan Need to debug prototypes
GRS500 Professional supports the following CAD formats:
Altium Designer Boardmaker Cadstar Fabmaster GenCAD Gerber Hyperlynx Kades-G IPC-D-356 Lavenir Mentor BoardStation OrCAD	PADS Power PCB PCAD Protel Pulsonix Theda Seetrax Ranger SuperMax ECAD Theda Toshiba Veribest Visula Vutrax
For a more complete list and how to prepare your CAD data see this application note
System comprises as standard: Precision flying probe system with 2 integral video cameras, supplied with custom PC based controller including 17" high resolution TFT screen monitor. Also included Polar GRS500BXd nodal impedance test system and powerful graphical repair software, permitting net tracing through inner layers using "virtual X-ray" and videosectioning techniques - see brochure for more details