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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2000
Chia-Chin Chu, Taipei, TW;
Wen-Lung Hsu, Taipei, TW;
Via Technologies, Inc., Taipei, TW;
Abstract
An apparatus for testing a main board processing circuit for joystick buttons. The apparatus is used for testing the processing circuit of a main board, wherein the processing circuit is coupled to the joystick through a connector. The apparatus contains a test tool and a short-circuit node, wherein the test tool contains M pins, corresponding to M pins of the connector, for coupling the test tool with the connector. N pins of the M pins of the test tool correspond to the N pins of the connector, which are connected to the buttons. The short-circuit node is the common node of the N pins that are all short-circuited for simulating the actions of the joystick buttons. In the test, the connector is firstly connected to the test tool and the status values stored in a status register are detected. The connection is then disconnected from the test tool.