Carried out some further work on failed mezzanine modules.
Inspected them externally and removed the copper block, internally with a bench microscope.
Found two obvious faults ..... broken components with scrambled pcb tracks.
To help determine problems with loading control registers I've added a new menu item in the ASIC control window to allow all four ASIC return values to be checked. This is only useful at the mezzanine test system.
Tested 7 that were labelled as faulty. Failed all of them. 2 with broken components and 1 with some broken bond wires.
Tested one fresh from the cupboard. It failed with over current on the +5v psu ( > 4A! ).
I propose to create a method of testing these mezzanines which allows better access to the power supply regulators ( LT3080 ) and the associated control voltage.
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