Boundary scan environment upgraded

Goepel Electronic has released a new version of its integrated boundary scan environment System Cascon.

Goepel Electronic has released a new version (4.2.1) of its integrated boundary scan environment System Cascon.

Major new developments in release 4.2.1 include integrated support for the innovative boundary scan hardware platform Scanflex as well as new ways of handling test vectors, complemented by a number of improvements to reduce project development time and to further increase the quality of test.

"With the integration of the Scanflex interface and the introduction of a new method for adaptive test vector handling we make possible an enormous improvement in regards to test throughput (typically threefold) for the users of our System Cascon", explains Thomas Wenzel, Managing Director of the Boundary Scan Business Unit at Goepel Electronic.

"In conjunction with a number of improvements, our integrated system solutions provide not only superior efficiency during project development, but also deliver unparalleled productivity during test and in-system programming execution with an extraordinary fault coverage".

Together with the new Scanflex interface, numerous fundamental software features have been implemented.

This includes the support of eight independent, parallel TAPs and a hardware configuration tool with autodetect functionality to automatically recognise and manage all connected Scanflex hardware - SFX-Controller, SFX-Transceiver and TAP interface cards (TIC), and SFX I/O Modules.

System Cascon 4.2.1 also supports all other Scanflex features, such as the new high performance controller architecture Space II, the innovative Fastscale principle for controller upgrades on-the-fly, the improved Adycs II for compensation of signal propagation delay independently for each TAP, and the new Hyscan technology for separated but synchronised handling of parallel and serial vectors.

The project data base in System Cascon has been extended in the new version 4.2.1 to handle level groups for nets and pins.

Level group assignments allow external I/O channels to be set up automatically with the appropriate parameters to match the voltage family of pins on the UUT they are connected to.

This feature is especially important for new test functions implemented for boundary scan on flying probe systems, which use the nails to gain better test coverage and/or improved diagnostics, eg by controlling non-boundary-scan devices such as buffers, which may otherwise not be accessible by boundary scan on the UUT, or by probing specific nets which don't have sufficient boundary scan resources on the UUT for complete testability.

Other improvements have been implemented specifically to allow a more effective project development.

This includes new commands for the integrated boundary scan programming language Caslan, the new capability to import Ibis models into the graphical Cascon Device Library, and new functions in the Cascon Component Explorer for intelligent UUT CAD data management.

The handling of floating licences has been further enhanced in System Cascon 4.2.1 - new features simplify the sharing of individual tools integrated in the software in a multi-user network environment.

This allows for example one user to automatically generate an interconnection test, while another user is automatically generating a memory interconnect test, all with the same software licence.

At the same time, the global myCAscon user management ensures the availability of individual system settings and project data.

System Cascon 4.2.1 is fully backwards compatible with earlier versions and supports all VXI, PXI, PCI, USB, GPIB, parallel port, RS232 and Fast Ethernet boundary scan controllers from Goepel Electronic.

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