GOEPEL will arrive at the At Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Exhibition on 12-13 February 2014 in Farnborough to show how systems for Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) and Solder Paste Inspection (SPI) help to optimise the production process, for both SMD and THT assemblies and for both offline and inline utilisation.

GOEPEL electronic and Teradyne have joined forces to develop an extended Boundary Scan option particularly for production In-Circuit Test/Functional Board Test of PCBs andthe modular functional testers on VXI and PXI Express basis. The solution is based on a pure software integration of the Boundary Scan platform SYSTEM as so called softpod, applying the tester’s native I/O instrumentation as JTAG hardware.

GOEPEL electronic announces the extended cooperation of CIM Industrial Systems A/S into the global alliance program GATE. Application development and practical implementation of new JTAG/Boundary Scan based solutions will be CIM's main focus as well as their integration into existing test systems.

GOEPEL electronic has introduced Video Dragon (basicCON 4121), a new solution for the test of high-speed LVDS connections and HDMI interfaces, setting new standards in testing infotainment components. Due to its modular architecture the device can be optionally configured as a frame grabber and frame generator.

VarioTAP technology increases test coverage for the latest ARM Cortex-M4 with FPU EFM32 Wonder Gecko microcontrollers. Energy Micro announces the immediate availability of emulation support for its latest EFM32 Wonder Gecko MCU with new VarioTAP model libraries from GOEPEL electronic.

GOEPEL electronic introduces CION LX, a new generation of JTAG transceiver ICs. The innovative chip provides ultra-low voltage characteristics, offering a tester-per-pin architecture based on diverse Boundary Scan standards such as IEEE 1149.1IEEE 1149.6 and IEEE 1149.8.1, in combination with additional digital and analogue test instruments.

GOEPEL electronic announces the inception of a comprehensive cooperation network with contract manufacturers. The “EMS Partner Program”, a global alliance program is focussed on joint activities for knowledge transfer about test methods and strategies. The official introduction of the EMS Partner Program will take place at GOEPEL electronic’s annual Boundary Scan Days Germany on the 15th and 16th of May in Jena/Germany.

Testing electronic circuits has been a key topic in the industry since the first transistor was developed, and today it is as relevant as ever. But how close to the ideal solution can developers get? By Thomas Wenzel, Co-Founder and Managing Director GOEPEL electronic GmbH in Jena/Germany, and Heiko Ehrenberg, President, North American operations, GOEPEL electronics LLC in Austin, TX/USA.

In cooperation with selected partners within the GATE Alliance Program, GOEPEL electronic has developed a powerful Inter Process Link for its JTAG/Boundary Scan software platform SYSTEM CASCON. The solution enables external tools to directly access the system internal project data base, additionally supporting interactive operations to handle data and control commands.

GOEPEL electronic presents a number of new features for its desktop tester series JULIET. The systems now support all Embedded System Access technologies for high-speed in-system programming of Flash, PLD and MCU as well as structural and functional at-speed board test.

At the 2013 SMT/Hybrid/Packaging show, GOEPEL electronic announced the market introduction of another RAPIDO series inline production system for in-system programming and board test based on the latest Embedded System Access technologies.

GOEPEL electronic‘s IP-based ChipVORX technology has been extended to execute Bit Error Rate Tests (BERT). The highly automated solution enables FPGA Embedded Instruments utilization in the form of special softcores for the test and design validation of high-speed I/O.

GOEPEL electronic announce special model libraries for the Energy Micro EFM32GGxxx micro controller series supporting the innovative emulation technology VarioTAP. Users are now able to utilize the processor as native instruments for prototype hardware design validation, production test and Flash programming. Higher test coverage is enabled by dynamic and customer-specific tests. For all test and programming methods, a unified environment includi...

GOEPEL electronic demonstrated programming and test strategies based on the innovative Embedded System Access (ESA) technologies. As part of a technological partnership, Xilinx provided a special board featuring Zynq-XC7Z020 All Programmable SoC components.

GOEPEL electronic now provides a special package for beginners in JTAG/Boundary Scan or users with cost-sensitive projects. PicoTAP Designer Studio is a complete Boundary Scan test system incl. hardware and software, offering an extremely reasonable price-performance-ratio.

GOEPEL electronic introduces SFX-TAP16/G-RM, a new version of its TAP Transceiver for the test and programming of up to 16 electronic assemblies in parallel. The compact solution with integrated system power supply helps to increase the throughput for UUT with a single TAP by factor 16, which results in significantly improved production efficiency and reduced investment costs.

GOEPEL electronics will hold its annual UK Technology Day on March 14th, 2012 at the Duxford Imperial War Museum. This one day event is a mixture of seminar and workshop sessions, where participants can gain deeper insight into the latest capabilities of test technologies like: Embedded System Access including JTAG/Boundary Scan, Automated Optical Inspection, Automated X-Ray Inspection and 3D Solder Paste Inspection.

At Southern Manufacturing & Electronics Exhibition in Farnborough GOEPEL electronics will demonstrate its extensive portfolio of solutions for electronic and optical test and inspection. On Stand D62 the company will demonstrate the systems impressive capabilities, including showing how a 360° operation camera and sophisticated Embedded System Access electronic test instruments can help to track down problems on today’s dense and complicated ...

Within the scope of an OEM cooperation, GOEPEL electronic and TEST-OK have developed a professional Boundary Scan option for the TEST-OK functional test system. The new integration solution is based on a specially developed plug-on module named UCM1149. The full integration of GOEPEL electronic’s Boundary Scan software and hardware in the TEST-OK test concept offers several benefits, such as higher test depth and fault coverage as well as cost ...

GOEPEL electronic recently introduced additional RAPIDO series inline production systems for high-speed programming as well as board test based on the newest Embedded System Access technologies. The new models named RPS3000-(x) support double-sided probing for up to 3000 nails. Non-volatile memories such as Flash, Microcontrollers and Programmable Logic Devices can be on-board programmed even faster and more reliably.