ScanWorks^® System-Level JTAG
Consulting Service

ASSET InterTech offers a consulting package for customers getting started with System-Level JTAG. This service is intended to help address the following questions:

• What functionality is desired from a System-Level JTAG architecture?
• Is there a standard set of solutions that fit the problem?
• What is the business case for a System-Level JTAG solution?
• What overall architecture/design is needed to address the problem?

The service brings ASSET’s experts to your facility, to work directly with your design and test engineers on implementing a solution.

This service offering consists of three phases, and will typically take five calendar days (non-sequentially):

Inception Phase

Assess the current situation in terms of product life-cycle test requirements and market constraints, paying particular attention to:

• Single-board test strategies (functional, structural, use of boundary scan);
• Multi-board system debug, system commission and field-service test objectives and strategies;
• General considerations of product, market and end-user requirements;
• Identify gaps in knowledge and define an outline technical plan.

Attendees from the company during the Inception Phase are: engineering and manager representatives from hardware and software design, system debug, system commissioning and field service.

Deliverable: preliminary assessment of the situation and a possible outline solution, plus an elaboration on the succeeding phases.

Elaboration Phase

Present the analysis of ASSET’s boundary scan team of experts, based on information gathered during the Inception Phase, with an emphasis on:

• Identifying system-level objectives and requirements
• Architecting test, maintenance, and in-system configuration applications
• Choosing a backplane test-bus protocol
• Identifying hierarchical multi-drop requirements and board/slot addressing
• Implementing the master/slave architecture
• Defining the Design For Test requirements of the system

Construction Phase

This phase presents the ASSET team’s conclusions and final outline plan. As well, an onsite discussion on implementation of the proposed design and schedule for possible ongoing ASSET assistance with the implementation will be held.