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Efforts to focus on linking ScanWorks® and Mentor’s embedded chip DFT structures
 ASSET has joined the Mentor Graphics OpenDoor Program in order to ensure toolset interoperability for embedded instrumentation applications. Mentor Graphics is a leading electronic design automation (EDA) vendor. Through the OpenDoor program ASSET and Mentor will enable the exchange of data between Mentor’s chip-level inserted design–for-test (DFT) structures, such as the JTAG infrastructure, and ASSET’s ScanWorks platform, which automates, accesses and analyzes embedded instrumentation and DFT data.
“We are very pleased and excited that ASSET has joined our OpenDoor Program.” said Greg Aldrich, director of marketing for DFT products at Mentor Graphics. “As the leading DFT tools supplier it is important to validate and ensure interoperability with downstream applications that our customers are using. The first objective is to validate the interfaces between the newly added IEEE 1149.6 support in our BSDArchitect tool and ASSET’s ScanWorks platform.”
Initial efforts will include interoperability testing for both the original boundary scan standard, IEEE 1149.1, as well as the newer IEEE 1149.6 standard that specifies a test methodology for high-speed, differential interconnects. Future work will enable ScanWorks to access internal test structures and embedded instruments inserted into chips with Mentor Graphics’ DFT tools through JTAG ports at the chip, board and
system levels.
“Users of EDA tools like those from Mentor are interested in boundary scan and JTAG verification because many of the chips they are designing will include core embedded instrumentation that will be deployed in design validation, test and debug applications later,” explained Alan Sguigna, ASSET’s vice president of sales and marketing. “These embedded instruments will be accessed by JTAG, so full compliance with all boundary scan standards is needed to automate, access and analyze them with tools like the ASSET ScanWorks platform. By working with Mentor Graphics our customers can take advantage of Mentor’s market-leading tools and new embedded instrumentation functionality that is critical to manufacturers today.”
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