PCB Bring-Up & Debug — question 1 of 10
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You've just received a freshly assembled prototype board. Before you plug in a debugger, apply clock signals, or try to talk to it over any communication bus, what do you check first and in what order? Walk me through the sequence you'd follow to bring this board up for the very first time, and explain what could go wrong if you skipped a step.