JTAG.TECT Delivers onTAP to Russian Customers

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:13:05 +0000

Flynn Systems – StarTest Technology Partnership Press Release

Flynn Systems and StarTest, along with their subsidiary JTAG.TECT (www.jtag-test.ru), have established a strategic relationship making JTAG.TECT the authorized Flynn Systems’ onTAP Boundary Scan Solutions dealer in Russia and countries of the former USSR. JTAG.TECT bundles onTAP Boundary Scan Solutions with their JTAG test solutions and services and provides complete JTAG tutorial and customer consulting, DFT and JTAG test program development support for onTAP. Flynn Systems has also integrated StarTest‘s JTAG hardware and software environment with the JTAG test and programming tools of the onTAP Boundary Scan Series 4000.

Current and potential customers of onTAP Boundary Scan Solutions, and onTAP Series 4000 are able to use some of StarTest‘s hardware and software solutions (DIMM/SODIMM External Modules, TAP Distributor and Bridge-For-Testability hardware tools, Operator Fault Spotlight software tool), as built-in features of the onTAP Boundary Scan Solution, usable throughout the users’ product lifecycle, including volume manufacturing and in-the-field troubleshooting and repair.

StarTest Ltd. (www.start-test.com) is a leading developer and supplier of JTAG test solutions in Israel across all hardware levels, including device, board, and system. StarTest is a team of test experts and engineers with more than 70 years of combined worldwide experience. StarTestserves as a JTAG and In-System Test (ICT) support supplier for:

Design-For-Testability (DFT) analysis and checking the DFT compliance of customer’s design before board layout and on all stages of the product lifecycle
JTAG (Boundary Scan) test program development, including on-board programming of CPLD, FPGA, flash, I²C, with different tools and platforms
ICT test program development for the Teradyne Z18xx testers with full test process support on the customer production facility

Flynn Systems Corp.(www.flynn.com) has provided test, debug, and programming solutions for the Boundary Scan test standard (JTAG IEEE 1149.1) for over ten years. Their onTAP software package delivers completely automated Boundary Scan testing for devices of all levels of complexity on printed circuit boards (PCB) and non-Boundary Scan devices interacting with the scan enabled devices. onTAP’s functionality also includes the capability to program flash devices using only the onTAP USB Test and Programming Cable. Flynn Systems Corp. provides high level test suites and the highest fault coverage available with a powerful ATG engine: all backed by fast, responsive technical support. Its satisfied customers include Intel, Qualcomm, Harris RF, Benchmark Electronics, Raytheon, L-3 Communications, Cadence Design, Teradyne, Checkpoint Systems, Ulticom, and University of Arizona. Flynn Systems’ onTAP provides Boundary Scan services for university research, avionics, defense systems, consumer goods, and medical electronics. It is based in New Hampshire with distributors and partners in Europe and in the Middle East.

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admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:10:21 +0000

Written by: Dr. Ami Gorodetsky of JTAG.TECT

Please follow this link for the original Russian:
http://www.jtag-test.ru/JTAGUniversity/articles/12-PE_6_2009.php

View Dr. Ami Gorodetsky’s blog:
http://moodle.cs.huji.ac.il/cs08/course/view.php?id=67703

In the 7^th paper of our “JTAG and DFT Basics Tutorial” series we had briefly examined the software basics of US based Flynn Systems’ (www.flynn.com ) onTAP Boundary Scan system that is intended for the JTAG test development, execution, and debugging, but the system hardware was not mentioned in the paper. In this sequential 12^th paper of the series we will overview the hardware of this very popular JTAG test system that is in worldwide usage for the JTAG-based test and in-circuit programming and flash burn-in stations, both in the lab environment and on the production facilities.

One of the noticeable and special features of the onTAP, which fairly distinguishes it from the hardware of competitor’s systems, is the surprising simplicity and mobility of the onTAP interface and, correspondingly, its low price. The onTAP hardware consists of the following three groups: two interface USB-adapters (the 6 MHz FS-9160 and the 30 MHz Dual Channel FS-9165), the FS-9180 TAP Serializer and GPIO Board, and a series of parallel JTAG-cables of different vendors (Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, etc.) that onTAP also supports. Designation of both USB-adapters, connected between a user’s PC and the UUT, is to support the operating voltages in the range of 1.8V to 5V, to increase the loading capacity and noise protection of the JTAG bus, and therefore, notably increasing the permissible distance between the PC-based test station and the UUT without any additional TCK frequency constraints.

The USB interface adapters together with the onTAP software allow for an easy and very mobile platform, without any noticeable limitations, to enlarge a quantity of JTAG chains utilized in the test, identical or different. In other words, the JTAG test preparation for a printed circuit board that contains n JTAG chains requires to have n FS-9160 adapters, or n/2 FS-9165adapters. With the usage of the FS-9180 TAP Serializer and GPIO Board the number of adapters can be substantially reduced. The same hardware setup (with the FS-9180 TAP Serializer or without it) also supports the simultaneous testing of n identical printed circuit boards with one or several JTAG chains; this situation is frequently encountered during the testing of similar printed circuit boards in mass production.

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