Board Test Software supports Intel® IOP321 I/O processor.
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For development of products based on Intel IOP321 I/O processor with Intel XScale® microarchitecture, integrated diagnostic solution includes drivers and turnkey test suites for PCI-X, SDRAM, DMA controller, and timers. Software choices include kManufacturing(TM) manufacturing test software, kField(TM) for in-field diagnostics, kDiagnostics for board bring-up diagnostics, and kPOST(TM) production-ready, power-on shelf test software.
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Kozio Announces Turnkey Board Test Software Supporting the Intel® IOP321 I/O Processor
Turnkey board test software from Kozio now available to board designers releasing new board designs based on the Intel IOP321 I/O processor
Longmont, Colo. - Kozio, Inc., a leading provider of embedded software for system-level hardware testing, today announced that its turnkey board test software is now available to designers releasing new board designs based on the Intel® IOP321 I/O processor with Intel XScale® microarchitecture. This broadens Kozio's existing support for Intel processors, and demonstrates the company's commitment to continual support of Intel I/O processors. Kozio is also a general member of the Intel Communications Alliance.
Kozio's products for manufacturing test, board bring-up, power-on self-test and in-field diagnostics now support the Intel IOP321 I/O processor, and can be delivered, fully configured, in just two weeks for a custom platform using the device.
"Kozio is committed to supporting the full line of Intel I/O processors, extending our Intel processor expertise and passing on that knowledge in proven software tools that are delivered very quickly to our customers," said Kozio President Joseph Skazinski. "Our products enhance confidence in releasing new boards using Intel I/O processors, and we guarantee customer satisfaction with a 60-day 100%-money-back guarantee."
For development of products based on the Intel IOP321 I/O processor, Kozio provides a completely integrated diagnostics solution, including drivers and turnkey test suites for the PCI-X, SDRAM, DMA Controller (both channels) and timers. Kozio also provides evaluation software that is ready-to-run on customer-owned evaluation kits, specifically the IQ31244 and IQ80219 development kits. For both development kits, Kozio supports the Intel Serial ATA controller with the Kozio I/O Engine(TM) feature, which provides I/O subsystem measurement, validation and characterization, taking advantage of the DMA controller and SATA controller moving data to external drives and validating the data after reading it from the drives. Please see the free application note titled "I/O Subsystem Measurement and Characterization Using Kozio kDiagnostics(TM)" for more information.
"Turnkey board test software from companies such as Kozio is an important option for our customers building next-generation storage systems," said Dave Boehmer, director of Applications and Platform Engineering, Intel Storage Group. "Such fully configured solutions help accelerate time to market by providing ready-to-deploy solutions for Intel I/O processors."
Kozio will support all Intel I/O processors, and supports storage-related peripherals such as IDE, ATA, Serial ATA (SATA), SCSI and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and continually adds new support for other technologies. Kozio's standard products support all memories, busses, core peripherals, and most other peripherals, performing hardware test, functional test, manufacturing test, board bring-up diagnostics and fault isolation. A new online quoting process, based on board layout, will address any hardware chips not supported by the standard products.
The single-chip Intel IOP321® I/O processor is Intel's fifth generation I/O processor. It is the first I/O processor to integrate an Intel XScale® microarchitecture core and a PCI-X interface. Many storage, networking, and embedded applications require fast I/O throughput for optimal performance. The IOP321 is a highly integrated, cost-effective I/O system on a chip that delivers a two-fold performance boost over its predecessor, the Intel IOP310® I/O processor chipset, in I/O-intensive applications.
The Intel IOP321 I/O processor is especially well suited to networked storage applications, including RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) adapter cards, ROMB (RAID on motherboard), and other storage applications. Its small package size, high data throughput, and integrated AAU/XOR provide an optimized solution for these applications. In addition, the Intel IOP321 I/O processor is an ideal choice for applications requiring a high performance I/O subsystem in a tightly-integrated environment.
Kozio provides electronic product designers and manufacturers with hardware test software customized to perform hardware testing on their processor board. This service includes the creation of software test algorithms providing comprehensive or near-comprehensive test coverage of various hardware components on a processor board. A detailed test-coverage document is delivered with the software.
Kozio software is offered in several variations, along with supporting services:
Manufacturing Test Software - kManufacturing(TM)
In-Field Diagnostics - kField(TM)
Board Bring-up Diagnostics - kDiagnostics(TM)
Production-ready Power-On Self Test Software - kPOST(TM)
In addition, Kozio also offers a free evaluation kit of its kDiagnostics software for board bring-up debug and test available on many processor reference platforms from industry-leading semiconductor providers and product solutions companies. For more information on Kozio products and free evaluation kits, please visit www.kozio.com .
About Kozio, Inc.
Kozio, Inc. is the leader in embedded test solutions for today's electronic products. Kozio delivers turnkey software providing a comprehensive suite of hardware diagnostics used for debugging and testing custom boards implementing processors from AMCC, ARM, IBM, Intel, Freescale, TI or MIPS. Kozio's clients build state-of-the-art products where successful use of the newest technologies with shortened development cycles requires them to constantly innovate to stay ahead of their competition. Kozio software improves their test methodologies and streamlines their development process with proven solutions for board bring-up diagnostics, manufacturing test, environmental test, power-on self-test, in-field diagnostics, and returns testing. By delivering thorough software diagnostics ahead of the hardware, Kozio reduces project schedule risk and development costs while increasing test coverage. Headquartered in Longmont, Colorado, Kozio products are available through a direct sales force and worldwide distributors.
For more information, please visit www.kozio.com.
Kozio, kDiagnostics, kManufacturing, kPOST, kField, and Flash-N-Run are registered trademarks of Kozio, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Contact: Joseph Skazinski, Kozio, Inc., (303) 776-1356, joseph.skazinski@kozio.com
