Abstract:
In order to verify robustness in regard to electrical overstresses of an electronic circuit under test (DUT), the latter is exposed to electrical overstresses (12, 14), and the behaviour thereof following upon exposure to said electrical overstresses is monitored (18). Moreover, the electrical overstress is applied to the electronic circuit (DUT) when the electronic circuit (DUT) is in its normal applicational conditions of operation. In particular, there is envisaged both the testing of the electronic circuit (DUT) in dynamic conditions by causing it to be traversed by the currents that characterize operation thereof and by exposing at least one supply line (20) of said electronic circuit under test (DUT) to electrical overstresses and the testing of said electronic circuit under test (DUT) in static conditions, without causing it to be traversed by the currents that characterize operation thereof and by exposing to electrical overstresses both the supply (20) and the input and/or output lines of said electronic circuit under test (DUT). The device (14) for generating the overstresses can be mounted on a circuit board (12), which can be coupled as daughter board to a mother board (10), on which the electronic circuit under test (DUT) is mounted.