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News Release from: Goepel Electronic | Subject: Scanflex
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 March 2005
Boundary scan hardware takes a modular
route
Scanflex is the next generation of JTAG boundary scan hardware from Goepel Electronic.
Scanflex is the next generation of JTAG boundary scan hardware from Goepel Electronic The revolutionary hardware platform is based on a complete modular system consisting of Scanflex boundary scan controllers (SFX-Controller) with external Scanflex TAP transceivers (SFX-Transceiver) and parallel controlled Scanflex I/O modules (SFX-Module)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Goepel Electronic has released the first products for extended JTAG/boundary scan solutions based on the revolutionary new hardware platform Scanflex.
Boundary scan controller runs via USB and Ethernet
The SFX/USL1149-(x) is the latest addition to the Scanflex boundary scan hardware platform from Goepel Electronic.
Thanks to the SFX-Module's open configurability, optional analogue, digital and mixed-signal channels can be directly added to the UUT interface.
"With the pathbreaking innovation Scanflex we introduce a completely new standard in respect of flexibility, modularity and performance for boundary scan benchtop systems", says Thomas Wenzel, Managing Director Boundary Scan at Goepel Electronic.
"At the same time it is another milestone in realising our extended boundary scan strategy".
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Boundary scan controllers switch to PXI
Goepel Electronic has developed new PXI based boundary scan controllers for its Scanflex boundary scan hardware platform.
Scanflex module for extended boundary scan tests
Goepel Electronic, a vendor of JTAG/boundary scan systems compliant to IEEE Standard 1149.x, has introduced another I/O module for the boundary scan hardware platform Scanflex.
"Now we offer our customers an excellent technological basis for the execution of yet deeper structural tests and the opening of the existing test access for complementary programming, test and emulation processes".
Besides its extreme modularity, Scanflex offers many other innovations.
These include support for up to eight parallel independent TAPs whereby each TAP is individually programmable for many parameters.
Furthermore, 32 I/O lines for event control and eight auxiliary I/O lines for additional analogue and digital functions are available.
On this basis an optimal adaptation to nearly any UUT and test environment is possible.
There may be a 5m distance between the SFX-Transceiver, typically without the need for a separate power supply or hardware controller.
In principle, at least one SFX-I/O module is pluggable on an SFX-Transceiver.
Alternatively, several SFX-I/O modules can be connected to the SFX-Transceiver or the SFX-Controller via an external link.
This configurability enables a completely open scaling of the test resources.
Scanflex is compatible with all established standards such as IEEE1532, IEEE1149.4, IEEE1149.6 etc, and is backwards compatible and supports all hardware interfaces of the first generation by Goepel Electronic.
Scanflex is fully supported by the System Cascon boundary scan development environment with more than 30 integrated tools also developed by Goepel Electronic.
The first members of the Scanflex product family will be available in Q2 2005.
The first stage includes: a PCI based controller; a twofold, fourfold and eightfold Scanflex TAP transceiver; and various I/O modules.
Further products will be launched over the course of the year.. Request a free brochure from Goepel Electronic ...
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