“In order to rapidly deploy Intel® IBIST, we knew that our users had to have tools that would expedite their uptake of this technology. We are pleased that ASSET’s ScanWorks software will be supporting Intel® IBIST” said Scott Huck, Intel Platform Technologist. “The Intel IBIST test technology will play a major role in reducing the cost of validating and testing the high speed buses on the next generation platforms.”
When it is available during the first quarter of 2005, ScanWorks with Intel® IBIST Tools will consists of software test controllers to validate high-speed buses such as PCI Express (PCIe) and others, as well as fault diagnostic tools. ScanWorks with Intel® IBIST Tools is being tested against the first Intel chips and platforms to include this new test technology.
ScanWorks with IBIST Tools was demonstrated at the Intel Developers Forum in the Moscone Center, San Francisco, Calif., in September of this year.
“We are excited to be the first vendor supporting the Intel® IBIST technology,” said Glenn Woppman, president and CEO of ASSET InterTech. “We look forward to extending the capabilities of ScanWorks with Intel IBIST. By supporting Intel IBIST in ScanWorks we will be able to offer our customers the most advanced test methods available.”
Intel’s IBIST technology is a test architecture that the company is integrating into its next-generation processor chips and chipsets to enable chip-to-chip interconnect testing and design validation of high-speed buses on a printed circuit board. IBIST leverages the boundary-scan IEEE 1149.1 specification as the hardware and software communication methodology for accessing and controlling the embedded on-chip IBIST capabilities.
To read the ASSET news release announcing support for Intel IBIST, click here.
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