RICHARDSON, Texas--ASSET® InterTech www.asset-intertech.com,
the leading supplier of open tools for embedded instrumentation, has
enhanced its validation and testing tools for Intel®’s future platforms.
In this arrangement, ASSET’s ScanWorks® platform for embedded
instruments will continue to support Intel®’s Interconnect Built-In Self
Test IBIST technology which is embedded in the chip company’s
processors and chip sets, and ScanWorks will provide a comprehensive
validation solution for high-speed input/output I/O on Intel platforms.
“With increasing signaling rates in modern platform designs, IBIST tools
such as the ASSET ScanWorks platform have become necessary for the
verification of those interfaces”
“For six years we’ve been the industry’s only provider of IBIST tools.
During that time, we’ve gained a great deal of trust from Intel®. Both
ASSET and Intel® have benefited from the relationship,” said Tim Caffee,
ASSET’s vice president of design validation. “We look forward to
continuing this support with future Intel® platforms. Additionally, the
ScanWorks platform’s I/O instrumentation tools are expanding beyond
Intel®’s QuickPath Interconnect QPI high-speed serial bus to provide
manufacturers with an expanded high-speed I/O validation solution.”
The ScanWorks validation tools for Intel® IBIST include functionality to
perform bit error rate testing BERT as well as margining tests. In
validation applications, these types of tests can be employed to
validate that the high-speed serial I/O buses on a circuit board design
will perform as expected before the design moves into high-volume
manufacturing. According to Caffee, ScanWorks’s next-generation tools
will support all major high-speed I/O buses, including QPI, PCI Express
PCIe, Direct Memory Interface DMI, and Double Data Rate 3rd
Generation DDR3.
“With increasing signaling rates in modern platform designs, IBIST tools
such as the ASSET ScanWorks platform have become necessary for the
verification of those interfaces,” said Gene Pitts, Data Center Platform
Application Engineering DCPAE Director at Intel. “More effective
solutions for the verification of complex design challenges allow the
industry to focus on other value-add aspects of their platform designs
without risking design robustness.”
ScanWorks® – The Embedded Instrumentation Platform
ASSET, through its ScanWorks platform, is applying the experience it has
gained from two decades as a leading supplier of IEEE 1149.1
boundary-scan JTAG test tools to the development of open embedded
instrumentation tools. The boundary-scan infrastructure that is embedded
into chips and circuit boards is one of several technologies which can
form the basis for an embedded instrumentation toolset. In recent years,
ASSET has significantly enhanced ScanWorks beyond boundary-scan test
with the addition of other embedded instrumentation technologies,
including processor-controlled test PCT and tools for Intel® IBIST
Interconnect Built-In Self Test, an embedded instrumentation
technology that Intel® and other companies are embedding into
next-generation chips and chipsets.
About ASSET InterTech
ASSET InterTech is the leading supplier of open tools for embedded
instrumentation for design validation, test and debug. The ScanWorks
platform provides automation, access and analysis tools in one
environment. Users can quickly and easily validate and test
semiconductors, circuit boards or entire systems during every phase of a
product's life, including design, manufacturing/repair and field
maintenance. ASSET InterTech is located at 2201 North Central
Expressway, Suite 105, Richardson, TX 75080.
For product information, call 888-694-6250, fax 972-437-2826, e-mail ai-info at asset-intertech.com
or visit www.asset-intertech.com.
