Asset InterTech focuses on embedded instrumentation
-- Test & Measurement World, 5/14/2008 12:29:00 PM
Responding to the increasing momentum in the electronics industry toward embedded instrumentation, Asset InterTech announced it is positioning the company, its products, and its technologies to provide open tools for embedded instrumentation in design validation, test, and debug applications.
Many of the established validation and test technologies are inadequate or ineffective for high-speed chips, I/O buses and systems, said Glenn Woppman, president and CEO of Asset. Moreover, he said, new chip geometries at 45 nm or smaller, as well as chip-level packaging technologies like system-in-package (SiP) are making validation, test, and debug very difficult, if not impossible with traditional technologies.
Building on its non-intrusive boundary-scan structural-test technology based on the IEEE 1149.1 JTAG standard, Asset said it has enhanced its ScanWorks platform over the last several years (click here for an example) with embedded instrumentation capabilities. According to Woppman, the company will continue to support JTAG structural test while developing open embedded instrumentation tools.
“This is a natural transition for Asset because we’ve actually been involved with embedded test and diagnostic technologies ever since we helped develop the boundary-scan standard and the marketplace back in the mid-1990s,” Woppman said. “Now, because of advancements in chips and circuit boards, embedded instrumentation is emerging as the most viable and efficient way to perform design validation, test, and debug. In general, the trajectory of the industry has been moving toward non-intrusive methodologies for more than 15 years, ever since boundary scan technology came on the scene. Embedding instrumentation is the next logical step, and over the last several years we have been migrating ScanWorks into a role as an open platform for embedded instrumentation, including boundary scan, CPU-emulation functional test, Intel IBIST and others.”
Coincident with its product and technology re-positioning, Asset also unveiled a new corporate logo. The new Asset logo represents the company’s efforts to drive embedded instrumentation on circuit boards, into advanced packages like SiPs and in chips.
The company also recently hired two embedded-instrumentation engineers—see related post “Embedded-instrument engineers join Asset InterTech.”
Also see related articles "As SOCs grow, test-and-measurement instruments move on-chip" and "External instruments here to stay."
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