As you may already be aware, onTAP regularly competes with all the other boundary scan vendors, world-wide, and wins.  In many cases, other boundary scan customers are the same as onTAP customers.  In many other cases, onTAP has been selected to replace other boundary scan systems because of the great value and support it delivers, at a substantially lower cost, thus enabling more widespread deployment.   

onTAP Boundary Scan Software Now Supports IEEE 1149.6

•  JTAG TAP infrastructure tests.
• Interconnect tests including detection of opens, shorts, stuck-at, bus-wire, pull-up/down related faults.
• Memory tests
• Cluster tests of non-JTAG components
• Flash programming
• In-system programming configuration
• Pin-level diagnostics
• On-going support

Click here to learn more about onTAP Turnkey Service

ATE Care will offer displays and demonstrations of onTAP Boundary Scan Software and Hardware in Hall A1 Stand 452 in conjunction with their High-End Functional Test exhibit.  They will also exhibit their AOI, SPI, ICT, and AXI capabilities in Hall A1 Stand 454. 

Please stop by to speak with our representatives and learn more about onTAP and how it coupled with ATE Care’s experience and vast knowledge base of boundary scan and functional test will improve your boundary scan / JTAG test and debugging efforts.

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Hall A1 Stand 452

ATE Care provides onTAP users in Europe with extensive onTAP boundary scan knowledge and ATE test services, along with specialized German Language support services for onTAP Boundary Scan Test Software.

Visit ATE Care: 

www.ATEcare.net
info@ATEcare.com

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Flynn Systems is pleased to unveil its newest hardware tool for boundary scan/JTAG testing: The onTAP Serializer and GPIO board. 

The onTAP Serializer and GPIO Board is a true "utility board" for the simple organization and execution of multiple boundary scan chains and applications.  This board is designed for testing, programming, and debugging up to four chains per Serializer and GPIO Board by providing four JTAG taps that receive either a ribbon cable or flying lead link from the user’s target board(s).  This enables users to easily test and program multiple boards with individualized tests for each unit under test (UUT).

The Serializer and GPIO board can also be daisy chained to another Serializer and GPIO Board, further expanding test capability.

Furthermore, the onTAP Serializer and GPIO board provides 196 easily accessible CPLD based drive and capture points to expand your debug capability. 

With this new tool for onTAP, boundary scan users with the need to test, debug, and/or program multiple applications at once now have a cost effective, flexible, organized means for implementing and executing their boundary scan test strategy.

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Learn more about the practical application of onTAP PC Based Parallel Testing – click here.

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Escape Communications asked Flynn Systems to help them tackle the challenge of embedding boundary scan tests into their ATB design through the use of readily available, off-the-shelf firmware in order to minimize customization and engineering development costs.  Escape selected the FTDI 2232D Dual USB UART/FIFO IC chip for the ATB test interface, the same chip Flynn Systems uses in their USB JTAG Test and Programming cable.  Escape and Flynn have both had great success with this particular device due to its versatility and full range of capabilities for test and development purposes.

The Escape solution confines the necessary test equipment to little more than a common high speed A-A USB 2.0 cable, controlling the embedded FTDI chip through Escape’s board design and its own test executive.  The result: “Now we have created a way to easily access the board and perform all the necessary functions for the different devices on the board.  Flynn was easy to work with and open to the idea of embedding a solution,” Pascaru noted.  Instead of having several cables and test and programming pods interfacing with the board, there is one embedded device connected to the test PC via a standard USB 2.0 port.  

From a single test port, a design, test, or manufacturing test engineer can simply plug the board into an onTAP-enabled PC or laptop, and run a complete suite of pre-developed onTAP boundary scan tests.  onTAP’s automated test generation delivers the highest possible fault coverage with a graphical debugging environment that provides pin-level diagnostic messages and detailed test reports. Pascaru is pleased with the outcome of the seamless integration of onTAP with Escape’s Automated Test Board.  The comprehensive test results provided by onTAP enable users to identify and repair faults on boards under test more quickly and easily than ever before.

Founded in 1998, Escape Communications provides indoor units (IDUs), high-speed modem modules, and Satcom terminals to commercial telecommunications equipment OEMs and major space and defense contractors.  Escape has developed an extensive portfolio of communications, signal processing, mixed-signal and embedded processor IP that enables them to offer standard product solutions and custom turnkey design services that are both cost-effective and schedule-efficient.  More details can be found at www.escapecom.com.