On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Christopher Havel laserhawk64@gmail.com wrote:
Posting from my phone while making dinner, so forgive that it's a top-post plz.
Testing via the micro desktop works as long as you've got a known good micro desktop and your ports haven't won through. I think the 4051 idea might be a little better - I've worn out USB ports before, just from using them - ask me sometime about my mother's old VAIO laptop and how it ultimately died... the only thing in my test rig to wear out is the card cage...
But, I'm not in charge, so I'll defer.
You make very good points about connector fatigue. I was planning to leave everything connected and only install/remove the EOMA68 card from the micro-desktop case. That works as long as we don't need to test hot-plugging anything. To my knowledge we figured the hot-plug capability would likely be conferred by the applicable standard and thus were designing a basic functionality test.
(Incidentally I have a dead VAIO laptop in which the power jack center pin broke. I really need to get that ordered and replaced.;>)