ScanWorks® Platform for Embedded Instruments

Solving the validation, test and debug puzzle

So what’s in a platform for embedded instruments that does validation, test and debug? Turns out, a lot. Imagine a seamless software environment to access, run and collect data from any instrument in your chips, circuit boards or systems. That’s the ScanWorks platform on your desktop PC for validation, in the manufacturing line for test or on a laptop in the field for debug. That’s the beauty of ScanWorks: tests migrate from one phase in the product’s life cycle to the next. Tests leveraging chip resources become part of a circuit board’s test strategy; and then they get rolled into system diagnostics for field service. No more re-developing new tests at each step along the way. And you reap extraordinary value. 

Just think about it.

You’ll be less dependent on those hardware instruments like scopes and logic analyzers that can’t access where you want to go. Maybe you’re worried about your investment in those big old tester boxes that are losing physical access too. Why wait until they’re obsolete? Let’s face it; it’s time to leverage an embedded instrumentation strategy and integrate it all into those new functional testers you’re building. ScanWorks is a perfect fit for functional test and here’s why…

It’s an inside job for ScanWorks. Instead of expensive external equipment, ScanWorks pushes data to you from inside chips, boards and systems. Anytime you want it, you have greater visibility, better coverage and diagnostics not available anywhere else. And it’s a software platform, so you can run tasks over your network or over the Internet. And updates to keep ScanWorks up to speed with the latest technologies? You get them right off the Internet.

You always have concerns. Who doesn’t? Cost-of-test is one. How about reducing it while improving your products’ quality and reliability? That’s only one aspect of the long-term value that your management wants from you. You’ve got to find and figure out the problems – faults, failures, degraded performance and others – early in design and all the way through the product’s life-cycle. Your users will value your products all the more and your management will see the value that the ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments has delivered.

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Check out the validation, test and debug technologies on the ScanWorks platform:

Boundary-Scan Test
Processor-Controlled Test
I/O Instrumentation

View a video:

Glenn Woppman explains embedded instrumentation.