Culminating a year-long review of its quality management standards and an intense three-day audit of its processes, ASSET InterTech has been awarded an ISO-9001 certificate by the International Standards Organization.

A newly enhanced version of ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks JTAG-based platform of hardware debug, validation and test tools allows engineers to more easily test the device interconnects between silicon ‘chiplets’ in multi-die packages.

Newly released support for Microsemi FPGAs and SoCs on ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks can decrease programming times for SPI flash memory devices to the point where inline programming on the assembly line will not disrupt the manufacturing beat rate. ASSET InterTech is a leading supplier of JTAG-based software and hardware debug, validation and test tools.

Newly released support for Microsemi FPGAs and SoCs on ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks can dramatically decrease programming times for SPI flash memory devices to the point where inline programming on the assembly line will not disrupt the manufacturing beat rate.

Because of its expanded internal memory, a new Ethernet controller for ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks platform can program larger data images and process test operations faster. The Remote Instrumentation Controller, designated the RIC-1400, is a direct replacement for the RIC-1000

Engineers designing with Double Data Rate 4 (DDR4) memory devices can quickly deploy tests for shorts and opens on control, address and data lines with the boundary scan test (BST) tools of ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks platform for fast test and programming.

Faster test and programming tools from ASSET InterTech will accelerate the production of system designs based on Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ Multiprocessor SoCs (MPSoC). These tools for the ScanWorks platform for fast test and programming take advantage of a target agent running out of a small amount of on-chip memory associated with one of the Arm Cortex cores in the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC.

Faster test and programming tools from ASSET InterTech will accelerate development and production cycles for designs based on Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoCs. These new tools, which join the ScanWorks platform for fast test and programming, take advantage of a target agent running out of a small amount of on-chip memory associated with one of the Arm Cortex cores in the Zynq-7000 SoC.

Circuit Check is collaborating with ASSET InterTech to more closely integrate ASSET’s ScanWorks boundary-scan test tools with CCI’s flexible, configurable functional test systems, the CCI 1000 Series Configurable ATE and CCI 6000 Series Rotary Handler.

SourcePoint from ASSET InterTech is the first debugger to take advantage of all of the trace facilities embedded in several of Intel’s most advanced processors, including those based on the microarchitecture codenamed Skylake for 6th Generation Core and Intel Xeon processor E3 v5, as well as several other microarchitectures not yet made public.

The newly enhanced processor-controlled test (PCT) tool on ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks platform can perform structural and functional test, as well as diagnostics, in one pass and still achieve the high test speeds required on manufacturing lines. based on embedded instrumentation.

Asset expertise and Weholite technology are helping Cornwall to create a showcase waste-to-energy power plant to replace the county’s shrinking landfill capacity. When complete, the new Cornwall Energy Recovery Centre (CERC) near the village of St Dennis will turn 240,000 tonnes of household waste a year into enough electricity to power 21,000 local homes.

A new system controller for ASSET InterTech’s SourcePoint hardware-assisted software debug platform allows engineers to begin software debug immediately by offering a fast and easy way to connect SourcePoint to Intel-based target platforms that support Direct Connect Interface (DCI).

A new eBook from ASSET InterTech explains how a relatively new industry standard, IEEE 1687 Internal JTAG (IJTAG), provides critical capabilities not found in older standards, such as the IEEE 1149.1 boundary-scan standard, commonly referred to as JTAG, and the IEEE 1500 embedded core test (ECT) standard.

The HSIO Validation Assistant (HVA), a new data mining tool for ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks platform, automatically analyses a database of signal integrity test data and quantifies the risk associated with potential design flaws or poorly performing devices on a system’s high-speed input/output (HSIO) buses.

At the International Test Conference (ITC) in Anaheim, ASSET InterTech and Cadence Design Systems are demonstrating the interoperability of their IEEE 1687 Internal JTAG (IJTAG) tools, which enable the re-use of embedded intellectual property (IP) both internally on chips and externally onto system boards.

Software engineers can spend days or weeks tracking down bugs in complex software for multicore systems-on-a-chip (SoC), often delaying new product introductions. A new eBook by ASSET InterTech explains how developers can take advantage of both trace and static analysis tools for greater insight into code execution and to identify root causes faster.

Programming memory in-system, or after the devices have been soldered to a circuit board, is the most efficient method, but the challenge for design and manufacturing engineers has always been the slow speeds of the process. Now, enhancements to ASSET InterTech’s ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments can speed up in-system programming by a factor of 1,000, reducing programming times from 10 or more minutes to one or two seconds.

The first debug platform to provide real insight from Intel Trace Hub to debug the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) that initialises system hardware and software has been introduced by Asset InterTech. SourcePoint can tap into both hardware and software sources of trace information to show engineers the exact code execution flow and system message execution information. 

New faster methods for the in-system programming of onboard flash as well as I2C and SPI memory are explained in a new eBook published by ASSET InterTech. In-system programming has many advantages over standalone programming stations, but, until now, its programming speed has presented a challenge for design and production engineers.