MediaTek, a fabless IC company, has
been a pioneer in chip solutions for digital consumer
products, wireless communication devices and optical
storage drives, including CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-R/RW and
DVD-RW drives, and DVD players. The company was founded
in 1997. The company’s headquarters is in Hsinchu,
Taiwan. MediaTek has more than 900 employees worldwide,
80 percent of whom work in research and development
capacities. The market research firm In-Stat/MDR recently
ranked MediaTek as the No. 2 supplier of MPEG video
ICs.
"We are very concerned about the
quality of our products and the support services we
provide our customers," said a Senior Project Manager
at MediaTek. "For our customers, boundary scan
is an important test technology because their products
must be extremely reliable and manufactured to high
quality standards. As a result, many of our customers
make extensive use of boundary scan test methods. And,
for MediaTek, that means that the boundary scan description
language (BSDL) files we provide for our IC devices
must be of the highest quality possible and completely
accurate. Validating the BSDL files for our ICs and
verifying the quality of the implementation of boundary
scan in our chips are important functions that ScanWorks
provides us."
In addition, MediaTek manufactures
many different types of printed circuit boards which
are used by customers and prospective customers as evaluation
platforms for the company's ICs. Having an evaluation
board with no faults or flaws is imperative if the benefits
of MediaTek's ICs are to be fully analyzed. As a result,
MediaTek has turned to ScanWorks to verify the quality
of the design of its evaluation platforms before they
are ever placed in the hands of prospective customers.
Moreover, MediaTek plans to provide its customers the
ScanWorks test project that was used to verify the design
of the evaluation platform. With this ScanWorks project
as a basis, MediaTek's customers have a head start on
a boundary scan test suite for the eventual end-product.
"We want each one of our evaluation
boards to be tested as thoroughly as possible because
we have a lot riding on our customer's experience with
the evaluation board," said the same Senior Project
Manager at MediaTek, "If there's a flaw on the
board, the customer may attribute any performance anomaly
to our device and we can't have that happen. Our evaluation
platforms are showcases for all of the research and
development we've put into our ICs. With ScanWorks we've
been able to quickly develop boundary scan tests that
identify and diagnose any faults in the design of our
evaluation boards long before any customer sees them."
These high standards for quality will
become increasingly important to MediaTek in the future.
The company has determined that it will soon offer solutions
for the wireless telecommunications industry as it continues
its global growth strategy.
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