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Since last May when we re-aligned ASSET as the first provider of open tools for embedded instrumentation, we've received a number of encouraging signs from the marketplace. For instance, other technology providers agree with us that embedded instrumentation is critical to the future of the electronics industry. And that means that the industry gets it. When we describe our vision, heads nod and light bulbs turn on. Certainly getting the word out on embedded instrumentation will take time, but so far, so good.

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A contemporary allegory – Part 2:
Mr. PCB teaches Chip a thing or two about JTAG compliance

Attentive Connect readers will recall that in our last installment we recounted the tale of Mr. PCB, the wizened veteran of the industry’s trench warfare, and Chip, the brash youngster with the air of invincibility about him. When we left these two, Mr. PCB had been instructing his young compatriot on the whys and wherefores of IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan compliance in semiconductor devices, not to be confused with chips. Our scribe, one Dave Bonnett, ASSET’s roving Product Manager, picks up the tale where we left off.

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ASSET takes leadership position on iNEMI's boundary scan adoption initiative

ASSET recently became a founding member of the International Electronics Manufacturing Initiative's (iNEMI) boundary scan adoption project. iNEMI is an electronics industry consortium of over 70 manufacturers, suppliers and related organizations.

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Network license, new bundles simplify global deployment of MicroMaster CPU emulation functional test

New licensing options and new station configurations in line with those of ASSET’s ScanWorks platform are making the MicroMaster CPU emulation functional test system simple to deploy wherever it can connect to a network. And the new station bundles mean that users can cost-effectively configure MicroMaster with the capabilities needed in a certain location.

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Industry's first Internet-based controller takes place and time out of the test equation

Special limited-time offer:
FREE ScanWorks upgrade with the purchase of a new controller

World Wide Test may not have the same ring as World Wide Web, but the concepts are the same. Just as users have access to the web anywhere they have access to the Internet, so too ScanWorks users have access to a unit-under-test (UUT) anywhere there is one of ASSET’s new Remote Instrumentation Controllers (RIC-1000) and the Internet. Access via the Internet removes place and time from the test equation.

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ASSET brings test tools perspective to development of new IEEE 1149.7 standard

Chief Technologist Adam Ley has been participating in the IEEE working group that is developing the new P1149.7 standard, which will define a reduced pin-count Test Access Port (TAP) compatible with the 1149.1 JTAG standard, but offering enhanced functionalities. Ratification of 1149.7 is expected early next year.

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Your thoughts on our BSDL validation service are worth something: A 32GB iPod touch!

The Agilent/ASSET BSDL Validation Service, which ASSET upgraded three years ago from Agilent’s e-mail-based service to a free web-based service, is being improved to serve you, its users, better. But, to best meet the specific needs of users, we need your inputs. For sharing your insights, you can win a 32GB iPod touch.

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MicroMaster supports Intel's new micro-architecture, Nehalem, and new system-on-a-chip family

MicroMaster, ASSET’s CPU emulation-based functional test and diagnostic system, now supports Intel’s new multi-core Nehalem micro-architecture as well as that company’s new system-on-a-chip (SOC) technology, the EP80579 Integrated Processor family.

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ASSET and Cadence work together to drive embedded instrumentation

Improved test coverage for complex
chip packages like System-in-Package (SiP)

ASSET is working with Cadence® Design Systems, Inc. of San Jose, CA., one of the leading Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools suppliers to the chip industry, to integrate the ScanWorks embedded instrumentation platform into the Cadence Encounter Digital IC Design flow, giving design and test engineers the ability to effectively embed instrumentation tools into complex system-on-chip (SoC) and system-in-package (SiP) devices and providing deep analysis and test of these chips.

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ScanWorks supports Avago's SerDes cores with Intel® IBIST

ASSET and Avago Technologies, a major chip supplier, reached an agreement whereby the ScanWorks embedded instrumentation environment would support Avago's serializer/deserializer (SerDes) cores with Intel's Quick Path Interconnect (QPI) architecture and that company's embedded instrumentation technology, Interconnect Built-In Self-Test (IBIST). Avago's SerDes cores are typically placed in application specific integrated circuits (ASIC).

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Maxim seeks ScanWorks' embedded instrumentation support for system and power management chips

Maxim Integrated Products recently sought out the support of ScanWorks for its new families of system manager and system monitor chips, which are capable of unique margining and diagnostics capabilities. Maxim joins a growing list of instrumentation solutions providers who are choosing ScanWorks' open tools.

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ASSET in the news

ASSET has been mentioned extensively in the news lately. Al Crouch, chief technologist, core instrumentation, recently penned an article for Electronic Products Magazine while ASSET’s Glenn Woppman and Alan Sguigna were both quoted in an article in Electronic Design Magazine.

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