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Accelerating Time-to-Market with Fast Flash Programming

ASSET InterTech

September 9, 2025
4:02 pm

In medical device engineering, success means delivering innovation to market quickly, without compromising safety or quality. Traditional firmware programming methods, while essential for many tasks, have become a bottleneck for loading the large firmware files of modern devices.

Why Directors of Engineering in Healthcare Are Rethinking Outsourcing

ASSET InterTech

August 12, 2025
11:49 am

In healthcare engineering, precision isn’t optional—it’s mission-critical. Directors of Engineering lead global teams and manage complex product lifecycles. They always feel pressure to deliver high-quality, compliant, and innovative solutions.

Rethinking Embedded Test Strategies: Why Non-Intrusive Board Testing Is the Way Forward

ASSET InterTech

August 12, 2025
9:30 am

As testing with legacy equipment becomes more problematic, engineers look for better ways to improve test coverage, enhance diagnostics, and speed up test times. But an overriding consideration is the cost of test – are the new test technologies more or less expensive than older solutions like ICT?

No Blind Spots: How ScanWorks Delivers Pin-Level Diagnostic Precision

ASSET InterTech

August 7, 2025
11:00 am

As medical devices become more powerful and compact, their underlying electronics grow exponentially more complex. For an engineering director, this presents a dual challenge: how do you accelerate time-to-market while ensuring the absolute, verifiable integrity of every board, especially when managing multiple manufacturing sites or third-party suppliers? The answer lies in a diagnostic strategy that provides a granular, unambiguous view of a PCB's structural health, leaving no room for doubt.

Improving and Removing Blind Spots in Medical Device Testing

ASSET InterTech

August 5, 2025
2:54 pm

Aligning ISO 13485, the cornerstone of medical device quality systems, with IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG), the industry standard for boundary-scan testability, is more than a best practice—it’s a strategic imperative. Read more about the Intersection of ISO 13485 and IEEE 1149.1 is enhancing reliability, quality, and testability in Medical Devices.

Why Healthcare Engineering Teams Are Reconsidering PCB Testing Outsourcing

ASSET InterTech

July 11, 2025
8:49 am

While outsourcing has long been a standard practice, many engineering teams are rethinking this strategy due to rising costs, time delays, and quality control issues. This article explores the key challenges of outsourcing PCB testing and introduces ScanWorks as a powerful in-house alternative.

How FPGAs Are Powering the Next Generation of Medical Devices and Diagnostics

ASSET InterTech

July 11, 2025
8:46 am

Engineering teams are under pressure to deliver smarter, faster, and more adaptable solutions. At the heart of this transformation is the Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)—a reconfigurable hardware platform that’s redefining what’s possible in medical diagnostics and device design. In this article, we explore how FPGAs are reshaping the healthcare landscape.

Combining ASSET Fast Flash Programming Technology with Customer IP – Part 2: Integrating ScanWorks-Generated Instruments into Customer IP

John Akin

July 8, 2025
1:08 pm

In this blog we’re exploring how the FFP IP generated by ETG can be instantiated inside a customer-owned top-level design—empowering FPGA developers to bring high-performance flash programming into an already-optimized and verified HDL framework.

AI analysis of Intel Processor Trace from ENABLEJTAGBREAK to Windows’ first SMI

Alan Sguigna

June 15, 2025
5:15 pm

It is possible to break at the earliest part of Windows boot via the ENABLEJTAGBREAK facility made available within bootmgfw!BlBdWaitForJtagHwDebugger. In this article, there’s a short description and video whereby I’ve collected Intel Processor Trace as the target boots from early Windows to the first SMM entry; and then used AI to analyze it. The results are outstanding.

Using JTAG for Interrupt Handler Research

Alan Sguigna

May 26, 2025
1:33 pm

JTAG can be used to explore the behavior of interrupt dispatching internals in a new way. This article describes the functionality of the Interrupt Descriptor Table (IDT) as an Intel target is booted from the reset vector, through UEFI, and into Windows.

Accelerating Time-to-Market with Fast Flash Programming

Why Directors of Engineering in Healthcare Are Rethinking Outsourcing

Rethinking Embedded Test Strategies: Why Non-Intrusive Board Testing Is the Way Forward

No Blind Spots: How ScanWorks Delivers Pin-Level Diagnostic Precision

Improving and Removing Blind Spots in Medical Device Testing

Why Healthcare Engineering Teams Are Reconsidering PCB Testing Outsourcing

How FPGAs Are Powering the Next Generation of Medical Devices and Diagnostics

Combining ASSET Fast Flash Programming Technology with Customer IP – Part 2: Integrating ScanWorks-Generated Instruments into Customer IP

AI analysis of Intel Processor Trace from ENABLEJTAGBREAK to Windows’ first SMI

Using JTAG for Interrupt Handler Research

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