ScanWorks® HSIO/Intel® IBIST

ASSET InterTech's Boundary-Scan Test, Processor-Controlled Test and I/O Instrumentation for Intel® IBIST are unique tools for access, automation and analysis of embedded instrumentation.

ScanWorks® HSIO/Intel® IBIST

Seeing what the silicon sees

Key Benefits

– Reduce your validation costs: lower capital equipment costs, more efficient and effective operations
– Shorten validation times: faster set-up, shorter test execution
– Maintain development schedules with shorter validation times
– Robust validation routines: test more lanes simultaneously without probes

Faster is inevitable, especially when it comes to high-speed input/output (HSIO) buses and device interconnects. And each additional gigabit or giga-transfer per second complicates HSIO validation because physically probing the HSIO only becomes more unreliable and expensive as speed increases.

The ScanWorks HSIO/Intel® IBIST toolkit is just one of the several non-intrusive validation, test and debug technologies that comprise the software-based ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments. While probe-based validation tools like oscilloscopes and logic analyzers must rely on simulations of bus signaling at high speeds, ScanWorks is able to monitor and report the signaling at the receiver. In other words, ScanWorks sees what the silicon sees.

Intel IBIST validation tools

– ScanWorks is the industry’s only toolkit for Intel IBIST
– Based on a seven-year relationship with Intel
– Validates advanced platforms (22 nm Sandy Bridge)
– Tools for pattern generation and checking, bit error rate testing (BERT) and margining.
– Validates QuickPath Interconnect (QPI), PCI Express, PCIe Graphics, Direct Media Interface and DDR3.

The ScanWorks platform does not rely on intrusively probing HSIO. Instead, it capitalizes on instrumentation already embedded on circuit boards and in chips, such as Intel’s Interconnect Built-In Self Test (IBIST) embedded instrumentation, to report performance measurements to you from the inside out. Freed from the limitations that probing imposes, the ScanWorks HSIO toolkit can validate a board faster since many lanes can be stressed at the same time. And simultaneously testing multiple lanes uncovers dependencies like crosstalk that would not turn up if you are limited to validating one or a few lanes at a time.

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