Product category: Board-Level Instruments
News Release from: Goepel Electronic | Subject: Scanflex for Teradyne Spectrum
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 26 November 2007
Teradyne board tester gains boundary
scan
Cascon Galaxy can access and use the probes in the Spectrum 8800 bed-of-nails adapter for driving and measuring circuit nodes.
Goepel Electronic has successfully integrated its Scanflex boundary scan platform with Teradyne's Spectrum board tester This solution is certified by Teradyne and includes specifically designed Scanflex hardware and Goepel Electronic's Cascon Galaxy JTAG/boundary scan system software
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The integration is such that Cascon Galaxy can access and use the probes in the Spectrum 8800 bed-of-nails adapter for driving and measuring circuit nodes.
"Teradyne's Spectrum 8800-Series manufacturing test platform now supports the unaltered reuse of all JTAG/boundary scan test and programming procedures generated with Cascon Galaxy", says Raj Puri, Vice President Marketing and Sales for Goepel Electronics in North America.
"Our Scanflex interface hardware provides Spectrum users with a highly integrated Boundary Scan system that ensures excellent signal quality and high performance".
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"In combination with our Cascon Galaxy software, this integrated solution can further extend the Boundary Scan testability and overall test coverage by utilising the bed-of-nails adapter for additional test access beyond the boundary scan resources available on the unit under test".
Teradyne's In-Circuit Test Marketing Director, Christopher McNally, adds: "Scanflex is a high-speed high-performance boundary scan solution that improves Spectrum's overall test capabilities".
"Like Teradyne's TestStation in-circuit testers, Spectrum testers can now be configured with certified Goepel Electronic JTAG/boundary scan solutions to expand system scalability and make more test options available to our customers worldwide".
The integrated boundary scan hardware includes a Scanflex PCI controller with a programmable clock frequency of up to 20MHz (SFX/PCI1149-A) or 50MHz (SFX/PCI1149-B) and a plug-in Scanflex TAP transceiver specifically designed for the Teradyne Spectrum 8800-Series tester.
Three different types of Scanflex TAP transceivers are available with four single-ended TAP, eight single-ended TAP, or four differential TAP interfaces, respectively.
The TAP transceivers also provide 32 parallel I/O channels.
All signals are available on the native ICT fixture interface and can be isolated from the fixture probes through relays.
This approach, in conjunction with numerous programmable parameters for the TAP and parallel I/O signals, guarantees high throughput with minimal contact and wiring problems.
The Cascon Galaxy integration on the Spectrum 8800-Series tester can also provide drive and measure patterns to circuit nodes accessible through the bed-of-nails adapter via the Spectrum's analogue bus resources.
The integrated boundary scan development and execution software package Cascon Galaxy is linked with the Spectrum 8800-Series software via the comprehensive Cascon API (application programming interface).
Therefore, all boundary scan operations, including any post processing of test result files, are fully embedded into the overall test flow and controlled by the tester's program.
All available software and hardware resources are managed in an automated fashion. Request a free brochure from Goepel Electronic ...
With a floating licence installation, Cascon Galaxy permits licence sharing between several Teradyne machines and even stand-alone boundary scan testers, providing greater flexibility with a minimum capital investment.
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