System and defect position specifying method

Abstract

There is provided a system that includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus configured to perform communication therebetween using a signal line, wherein the first apparatus includes a holding section configured to hold a signal level of a signal outputted from the second apparatus using the signal line, and the second apparatus includes, a detection section configured to detect a failure in which a signal level does not change from a certain signal level when the detection section detects that the signal level is not correspondent with a predetermined level, the signal level being held in the holding section after a signal of the predetermined level is inputted to the signal line by the second apparatus.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.