ScanWorks® Intel® IBIST (Interconnect Built-In Self Test) once again establishes ASSET as the leader in embedded test tools. ScanWorks is the first boundary scan environment to offer support for Intel® IBIST, that company's next-generation design validation and embedded test methodology. To lower the overall cost of test and more effectively validate high-speed buses such as PCI Express and others, Intel® is embedding Intel® IBIST into many of its chips and chipsets.

Intel® IBIST uses the boundary scan standard (IEEE 1149.1/JTAG) as the communication protocol for validating high-speed buses as well as for the testing of interconnects at the board and system levels. ScanWorks® Intel® IBIST applies ScanWorks' industry-leading boundary scan technology to make Intel® IBIST easy and affordable, yet powerful.

Special technologies, such as software controllers and diagnostic tools, have been integrated into ScanWorks to support Intel® IBIST. Now, because of ScanWorks' easy and automated user interface, with just a few clicks of a mouse an engineer can validate the design and operation of high speed buses, test device interconnects at the board level and test subassembly interconnects at the system level.