Services
Support Services
ASSET offers a variety of services to help you with design-for-testability and test development. Many of these services are free of charge.
If your test development team is understaffed, experiencing a peak load, or not yet fully trained, consider the ASSET Services team an extension of your own team. Ask your Regional Sales Manager to propose a Statement of Work and a quote. Your Sales Manager will tell you what we need from you to start this process.
Test development services include:
- Boundary-scan test development and debug
- Integration of tests with your other test tools (e.g. ICT)
SourcePoint and Arium Probe service:
Arm related designs
- Review and consult on CoreSight design and implementation
- Review and consult on multi-core (homogeneous and non-homgeneous) system designs
- Review schematic and layout of debug related circuits (JTAG and ETM)
- Troubleshoot and resolve any tool connectivity issues
- Validate and customize Arium solution on customer/partner designs
- Review software implementations where platform and tool resources may collide
- Implement and deploy advanced debug solutions
Intel related designs
- Assist with on-site power-on activities
- Review and consult on multi-package system designs
- Review and consult on debug port schematic and layout
- Troubleshoot and resolve any tool connectivity issues
- Validate and customize Arium solution on customer/partner designs
- Review software implementations where platform and tool resources may collide
Custom Tool Development
Do ASSET’s standard products not quite meet your unique requirements? Tell your ASSET Sales Manager about those requirements. Many enhancements may be delivered for free to maintenance customers, but ASSET is also prepared to be your custom tool development partner for an NRE fee.
DFT Analysis
ASSET can assist you in analyzing your design to see if it is ready for use with any ASSET test technology. Ask your Regional Sales Manager about Testability Studies.
Specialized Interface Hardware
While ASSET does not try to compete with fixture suppliers or cable suppliers, we may be able to help with your unique requirements for special interfaces, such as interposers or level shifters. Ask your ASSET Sales Manager.
BSDL Validation Services Free
ASSET and Agilent Technologies, Inc. have jointly developed an online service that performs BSDL validation. This free service syntactically and semantically checks the file, confirming correct spelling, punctuation, instruction codes, register associations and register cells, as required by the IEEE 1149.1 standard. It also automatically generates test patterns, creating a set of test vectors in a simple truth-table. These vectors can effectively test a chip design during the simulation phase to verify that it meets many of the requirements of the IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan standard.
The quality of these BSDL files is essential to improving the testability of printed circuit boards and systems for hardware manufacturers. When a BSDL file is inaccurate or the implementation of boundary-scan in a device is poorly executed, testing or programming the device will require additional time and effort to troubleshoot. Moreover, in the worst case, an inaccurate BSDL file will reduce boundary-scan test coverage in every product where the device is designed-in.
