Automated Testing of Digital Components

Abstract: In today's technological companies digital electronics and components are abundant. Many companies use these components to manufacture a wide variety of electronic products such as computers, tv’s, cars, etc. But after their use, these components are thrown away easily and are an additional contributor to our growing climate change. There is a need for a more effective way to deal with these components. Companies could save a lot of time and energy to have a system that could test these components.The goal of this study is to present a suitable method for testing digital components by developing a test program for testing the various integrated circuits and thus identifies which circuits are faulty and which ones are not. The economical and efficiency side of building such a program is discussed and If it is worth the time to produce such a system, or if it's much better to throw the components away. The intent is also to give companies a way of being more efficient and environmentally friendly.This program was made by using integrated circuits from the course IE1204 and IE1205, where students use these components for their labs. After the course has ended there is no certainty if the integrated circuits work properly or not. The goal of the program is then to test them and find out the faulty ones.An Arduino Uno and the Arduino programming language have been used to write the code for this project. The Arduino Uno was connected to a breadboard which then ran the program for testing. To that breadboard, various integrated circuits, such as logic gates, were connected. The Arduino program then tested their truth tables to see if they worked properly or not.Because of time restriction more complex components have not been included in this thesis.