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Quite some time ago I purchased an IC Tester from Genius. The G540 is able to programm various IC as it is able to test CMOS and TTL IC. Last option was quite interesting to me as this makes repairing stuff a lot easier when you know which part is defect instead of exchanging all part just by trial and error. The programmer did a quite good job (some IC were not recognized) until I had to upgrade to Win7. Here the programmer started to create troubles, the programmer was not recognized in some cases and the program froze during IC testing. After searching for alternatives I decided to make my own tester with some additional advantages. So the result was a Arduino based IC-tester with an optional Serial output which does the job in most cases (still some room for improvement available).”

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