Software/Hardware System supports boundary scan test routines.
October 14, 2010 -
Suited for board-level and system designers, ProVision Designer Station provides automatic test program generation for interconnections and in-system programming for devices. Scripting library known as JFT leverages open-source Python(TM) language to add sophisticated test options for logic clusters and for programming of memory devices. Additional interactive tools, such as ActiveTest, enable rapid generation of simple cluster tests and checks that might require small number of test patterns.
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Original Press release
Jtag Technologies Inc
1006 Butterworth Ct
Stevensville, MD, 21666
USA
Full-featured Value Boundary-scan Developers Suite
ProVision Designer Station offers complete JTAG development package
Eindhoven, the Netherlands, - JTAG Technologies is delighted to announce a new economically-priced software and hardware system for board-level and system designers looking to benefit from a boundary-scan test and programming strategy.
Boundary-scan, or JTAG, testing has remained a powerful tool for identifying assembly faults such as open- and short-circuits, missing components and damaged devices since its introduction (as IEEE Std 1149.1) in 1990. However, while boundary-scan tools have been in use for almost 20 years, the relatively high cost of 'professional' systems has meant that they largely remain in the domain of test and production engineers. Until now.
JTAG Technologies' ProVision Designer Station offers a low entry price yet retains key features such as automatic test program generation (ATPG) for interconnections and in-system programming (ISP) for devices.
ProVision Designer Station is ideal for the preparation of all boundary-scan test routines that might be used in the design environment and beyond. The tool incorporates a highly automated test program generator for interconnects that takes advantage of a library of thousands of non-boundary-scan (cluster) device models to create a safe [to execute], high-quality core test.
Rapid generation and execution of this so-called 'Interconnect Test' using the handy JT 3705/USB controller, that is included with the system, allows the user to gain quickly confidence that the core boundary-scan to boundary-scan pin connections of a design are defect-free.
ProVision Designer Station also includes a unique scripting library known as JFT (JTAG Functional Test) that harnesses the power of the open-source Python(TM) language to add sophisticated test options for logic clusters and for the programming of memory devices. Furthermore, additional interactive tools, such as ActiveTest, enable rapid generation of simple cluster tests and checks that might require only a small number of test patterns.
A serial vector format (SVF) player feature serves as a programmer for CPLDs and FPGAs, and the system also includes the sequencer module 'AEX Manager.'
In common with other members of the ProVision family ProVision Designer station requires that the user has only basic boundary-scan knowledge. Since all the manipulation of test patterns and serializing of data streams is undertaken by the software, the user can concentrate on the optimum way to debug his/her design from the board/device perspective.
Peter van den Eijnden, MD of JTAG Technologies, commented: "Encouraging the use of boundary-scan testing through the use of no-nonsense and economically-priced tools can only be good for the industry. We know from many years' experience that these tools save money by reducing the time needed for functional testing and perhaps more importantly - from the designer's perspective - speeding time-to-market. Allowing designers to take ownership of the test 'problem' is an ideal way to prepare for new product introduction."
www.jtag.com
About JTAG Technologies
JTAG Technologies is a market leader and technology innovator of boundary-scan software and hardware products and services. The company was the first to bring to the market such important advances as automated test generation, automated fault coverage analysis, automated flash and PLD programming via boundary-scan, and visualized boundary-scan analysis. Its customers include world leaders in electronics design and manufacturing such as Ericsson, Flextronics, Honeywell, Medtronic, Motorola, Nokia, Philips, Raytheon, Rockwell-Collins, Samsung, and Sony. Its innovative boundary-scan products provide test preparation, test execution, test result analysis and in-system programming applications. With an installed base of over 6,500 systems worldwide, JTAG Technologies serves the communications, medical electronics, avionics, defence, automotive, and consumer industries with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. JTAG Technologies headquarters are located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
JTAG, JTAG Technologies and ProVision are registered trademarks of JTAG Technologies, Inc. All other brand names or product names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder(s).
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