ITC: Asset InterTech expands embedded instrument support
-- Test & Measurement World, 10/25/2007 5:31:00 AM
Asset InterTech at the International Test Conference announced that it is expanding its ScanWorks system by adding signal-integrity analysis applications that support Intel’s IBIST (interconnect built-in self-test) embedded instrumentation technology. ScanWorks now supports signal-integrity analysis through margining, bit-error-ratio testing (BERT), and pattern-generation-based testing as well as IEE 1149.1 boundary-scan test and in-system programming.
Asset reports that the new ScanWorks application will support Intel’s next-generation Nehalem processor with Intel’s QuickPath interconnect architecture. It will also support the IBIST technology embedded in Intel’s 5300 and 7300 series Quad-Core Xeon processors.
Said Tim Caffee, Asset’s VP for design validation, “Embedded instrumentation like Intel’s IBIST technology is particularly critical these days because the processing speeds and data-transfer speeds of computers and other electronic systems have increased so dramatically. At the high speeds that systems are reaching today, the effectiveness of traditional methods of test and design validation, which rely on physically probing circuit boards, is significantly diminished.” He noted that ScanWorks has evolved over the past three years to acquire the functionality necessary to serve as an easy-to-use design validation, test, and debug tool for Intel’s embedded instrumentation.
“As the industry’s demand for high-speed serial signal architectures continues to grow, we expect to see a growing dependency on IBIST for validating and testing Intel technology,” said Lorie Wigle, Intel’s marketing director for server software technology initiatives.
Asset’s ScanWorks environment with support for IBIST consists of software applications for validating and analyzing signal integrity on buses through margining and BERT techniques. ScanWorks interfaces to embedded instruments to validate board-level and system-level designs that feature high-speed buses such as PCI Express and Intel’s QuickPath. IBIST leverages the IEEE 1149.1 JTAG boundary-scan specification to access and control embedded instrumentation capabilities.
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