June 27th, 2007
Boundary-scan in the limelight
Eindhoven, 27.6.2007 - With over 60 participants from all over Europe and an abundance of workshops in the American Hotel in Amsterdam, in June JTAG Technologies filled two days of seminars for its European customers with interesting technical presentations, news and shoptalk. There were also reports on the latest developments from JTAG Technologies.
Director Peter van den Eijnden welcomed the numerous participants and introduced the latest updates for JTAG Provision. As van den Eijnden explained, the ProVision environment can also be used to check designs with regard to the boundary-scan test coverage. Accurate quantitative results for testability -- both for the theoretical and the actually achieved test coverage -- can be represented for each network and pin. The theoretical or maximum achievable test coverage can be used prior to production to ascertain whether the DFT targets of the designs have been reached or not. Based on the actual test coverage, the test developer can then determine whether the potential test coverage of the boundary-scan implementation has been realised.This new version of ProVision features a direct link with JTAG Visualizer, enabling pins or networks to be displayed in real time in circuit diagrams and layouts. Areas of interest are highlighted in colour, giving the developer a rapid overview of the testability analysis results. On-screen presentation of circuit diagrams and layouts allows DFT targets to be achieved considerably more quickly than is the case with the paper copies that are usually used.
There followed technical presentations by Selex Communications (Italy), Renishaw (UK), Philips (Netherlands), Foss (Denmark), Nokia (Finland) GEB Group (Italy) and TBP (Netherlands), all concerning the very latest 1149 Standard user applications from JTAG Technologies and illustrating in detail the truly widespread utilisation of boundary-scan. Product news and application presentations by JTAG Technologies' European experts rounded off the second day of the User Meeting, which has firmly established itself in the JTAG Technologies events calendar for the years to come.
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 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, 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 4,500 systems worldwide, JTAG Technologies serves the communications, medical electronics, avionics, defense, automotive, and consumer industries with offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. JTAG Technologies headquarters are located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
