Company Information

Overview

Non-intrusive validation, test and debug technologies have been around since the emergence of boundary scan (IEEE 1149.1 JTAG) in the mid-1990s. Over the years since then, the imperatives dictating probe-less methodologies have multiplied significantly, spawning a trend toward embedding instrumentation in chips, on circuit boards and in systems.

Now, the test and measurement industry faces new imperatives even more demanding than those that brought about the first wave of non-intrusive technologies late last century. Today’s design validation, test and debug applications are very different than they were not so very long ago.

Exacerbated by extremely high data transfer speeds, multiple-core chips, new chip packaging techniques like system-in-a-package (SiP), very dense circuit board and other forces, the industry is turning to embedded instrumentation for solutions to a wide range of difficulties.

Because of its almost two decades of leadership experience with boundary-scan technology and the JTAG interface, ASSET InterTech is well positioned to provide automation, access and analysis for embedded instrumentation technology. And the company’s track record for successfully integrating its products with third-party technologies and vise versa demonstrates emphatically that the company’s products – Boundary-Scan Test, Processor-Controlled Test and Intel® IBIST, all running on the ScanWorks® Platform – will certainly interface effectively with third-party embedded instruments. Ultimately, ASSET intends to continue its leadership in boundary scan (JTAG) structural test as well as expand aggressively into design validation, test and debug applications involving embedded instrumentation.

History

Our company began as a business unit of Texas Instruments, Inc., dedicated to the development of IEEE 1149.1 tools. In 1995, the team that had designed, developed and marketed the ASSET system for the previous six years founded ASSET InterTech, Inc., acquiring TI's ASSET product family of JTAG tools and its related business. In December 2007, ASSET InterTech acquired International Test Technologies (ITT), an Ireland-based supplier of processor emulation technology used by electronics manufacturers.

Future

We believe that the outlook for embedded instrumentation is bright. Indeed, we would not set our sights on being the leading open tools provider for embedded instrumentation if we believed otherwise. As a way to formally recognize the significance of this juncture in our history, we have developed a new corporate graphic identity. Our new logo with its tagline, “Driving Embedded Instrumentation” represents the company’s efforts to drive embedded instrumentation on circuit boards, into advanced packages like SiPs and into chips. By doing so, ASSET “brings many diverse pieces together” for its customers. The years ahead will be exciting. As we traverse this new path, you’ll hear much more from us as we show the industry how ASSET InterTech is driving open tools for embedded instrumentation.