Abstract: A monitoring device of environmental parameter values of an environment surrounding a system. The device includes a sensor to these parameters, and includes a means of transmission, in real time, of each measurement to a processing unit. The processing unit is installed in the system and includes the means of filtering the transmitted measurements. This processing unit comprises the means for determining cycles from the measurements thus simplified as well as the means for calculation, in real time, of a length of consumed life of the system, from the thus determined cycles.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing integrated circuits by subjecting the circuits to an electromagnetic disturbance. A probe is provided, equipped with a horn cover designed to be applied to a printed circuit on which an integrated circuit is mounted. Within this horn cover, a core shield channels the electrical field that is deployed in a zone in which connections from the integrated circuit to the printed circuit that it carries are situated. The effectiveness of the electromagnetic interference injected in the integrated circuit is increased to the point that a true measurement of the resistance of this integrated circuit to the electromagnetic interferences may be carried out.