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Coincident with the recent release of Agilent’s new, next-generation ICT platform, the Medalist i5000 Series, Agilent and ASSET announced that a new boundary scan bundle, Medalist ScanWorks, would be the premiere JTAG solution on all of Agilent’s Medalist ICT systems, including the 3070 and the i5000 series. John Herczeg, Agilent’s Support and In-circuit Marketing Manager, reviews the two companies’ three-year strategic relationship and takes a peek at what the future might hold.

TEST DATA OUT

When are tests good enough? ScanWorks’ fault reports lead to better tests, better test coverage
by Dave Bonnett

Most test engineers would be happy if they had just a bit more information. First, they’d want to know how much boundary-scan test coverage is available on a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA). Second, they’d love to know how much of the available coverage is being exercised by their JTAG tests. And third, it would be to die for if they could find out how they might improve the test coverage from their tests. ScanWorks’ Fault Coverage Reports can help on all counts.

TAPPING IN

French telecomm firm shares a ScanWorks license between two facilities 800 km apart

So you’ve got two user groups half a country apart and only one ScanWorks license. What’s the problem? There is none with ScanWorks’ network license. AETA.COM, a telecomm firm with facilities and ScanWorks users in Paris and Aix en Provence, France, efficiently shares its one license without a hitch.

INSIDE ASSET

ASSET web site gets a face lift

If you haven’t visited ASSET’s web site lately, you should. We’ve re-designed the home page, making it more inviting and easier to take in. And we’ve added to the overall resources of the site. For example, our customer success stories have expanded. They now are sorted by vertical industry segments and common areas of interest. It’s worth a look. You might find a solution you can borrow.

Click here to check out the new ASSET home page.

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And the winner is….ScanWorks for second year in a row!

The editors of Test and Measurement World, one of the electronic test industry’s leading publications, were thoroughly impressed by ScanWorks for High-Speed Buses. For the second year in a row, the magazine presented ScanWorks with a "Best In Test" award, naming it the best product in the test industry for "printed circuit board and system test."

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Concurrent programming could increase efficiency by 30 percent

Companies like Alcatel have found that the concurrent in-system programming of multiple devices can be a real time saver. With the integration of Lattice Semiconductor’s ispVM engine, ASSET recently announced support for the IEEE 1532 Standard for In-System Configuration. In fact, ASSET’s Technical Product Marketing Manager, Dave Bonnett, was vice chairman of the working group that developed the IEEE 1532 standard.

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Medalist ScanWorks is Agilent’s premiere JTAG tool on the new i5000 ICT and all 3070 systems

ScanWorks has been integrated into all of Agilent Technologies’ Medalist in-circuit test (ICT) systems, including the brand new i5000 Series as well as the established 3070 Series of ICT systems. Now though, ScanWorks is part of a new bundle called Medalist ScanWorks.

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Cisco engineer wins iPod! Webster at BAE Systems finishes second

Dinh Cao, an engineer at Cisco, shuffled off with an iPod MP3 music player for submitting more than a hundred device models to the ASSET Model Library.

Honorable mention went to Jim Webster of BAE who finished second.

The race for the iPod, which concluded February 28, added several hundred new non-boundary scan device models to the library, which can be accessed by the ScanWorks community.

USER PROFILE

Webster has been committed to ScanWorks and boundary scan

Jim Webster, a principal engineer at BAE Systems, doesn’t believe in doing things half-heartedly. Back some eight years ago when his assessment showed that ScanWorks was the JTAG system for him, he also committed to doing what he could to contribute to the community of ScanWorks users. Now, he sees a bright future ahead for boundary scan technology.

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