Boundary scan, by way of ScanWorks®,
has become an important weapon in many companies’
manufacturing test arsenals. One of the world’s
largest electronics manufacturer, Jabil,
for example, generated big cost savings by combining
ScanWorks’ JTAG tests on its 3070 ICT systems.
A small segment of Jabil’s overall cost savings
comes from reducing ICT test development costs by
25 percent. Another big manufacturer, Raytheon/ODS,
has had a similar experience with ScanWorks for the
3070. But JTAG test and ScanWorks in manufacturing
aren't limited to running on ICT platforms. Another
defense manufacturer
experienced significant cost savings by running ScanWorks
JTAG tests with a flying probe tester.
Similarly, smaller manufacturers have reduced the
cost of manufacturing test by integrating ScanWorks
into their processes. Qlogic,
for one, came to the conclusion that it couldn't test
its circuit boards without ScanWorks. Digidesign
found visual inspection and ICT lacking. One nettlesome
problem was diagnosed by ScanWorks as a faulty pin
on a DSP chip. And Netrix
has bought into boundary scan to such a degree that
it has now become an integral part of its overall
manufacturing test strategy. |
ScanWorks® Saves Digidesign Time, Stress and Pain. "When a board failed our diagnostic tests, a test technician would spend all day probing it with an oscilloscope until we found where the problem was," said Chris Durocher, manufacturing engineer for Digidesign™, the leading supplier of digital audio recording and editing systems, and winner of a 2001 Technical Grammy award for work performed on the movie, The Mummy Returns. "Now that we have ASSET ScanWorks™, we know exactly where the problem is in seconds. ScanWorks saves us a lot of time, stress and pain." 
Agilent
ScanWorks® Completes Successful Assessment at
Jabil Circuit. One of the first places electronics
manufacturers look to reduce expenses is through the
elimination of redundant effort. Jabil Circuit, Inc.
one of the top Electronic Manufacturing Services providers
was first to perform early assessment of Agilent Technologies’
and ASSET InterTech’s joint effort to enable
manufacturers to leverage boundary scan tests across
the product life cycle. 
ASSET
Helps Telecommunications Company Program Implement
In-System Programming with the ScanWorks JTAG Environment.
"Based on these results, we decided to require boundary
scan on all new products." 
Qlogic rates ScanWorks JTAG system "the best!" Miles Nelson, test engineer for Qlogic, Aliso Viejo, Calif., wanted to find the best JTAG test and in-system programming environment available. He methodically tried some of the boundary scan products he could find and came to an emphatic conclusion. 
See how ASSET helped Raytheon and ODS reuse their tests as they moved from development to manufacturing. "With ASSET, we were able to develop one of our JTAG tests in two weeks. We were amazed how quickly boundary scan test development went," said Greg Knight of Raytheon. Ron Romero of Essential/ODS attests,
"We were able to start testing the system via JTAG right away because we didn't have to generate tests from scratch. We just re-used Raytheon's boundary scan tests."
ScanWorks® reduces Tellabs JTAG and ICT costs while improving board quality. Vivace Networks, which was recently acquired by Tellabs, Inc., of Naperville, IL, makes very complex circuit boards with more than 9,000 nodes, ball grid array (BGA) and micro-BGA devices with more than 400 pins, 32 layers per board and numerous application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) with as many as 1,247 pins. Besides the fact the new division of Tellabs could only get 40 percent test coverage on such a board, producing in-circuit test (ICT) fixtures to thoroughly test boards like this was proving to be a very expensive and time consuming proposition. 