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News Release from: Goepel Electronic | Subject: SFX/TSL1149-(x)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 February 2006
Boundary scan controllers offer more
interfaces
At the APEX 2006, Goepel Electronic released the SFX/TSL1149-(x), the newest member of its Scanflex JTAG/boundary scan hardware family.
At the APEX 2006, Goepel Electronic released the SFX/TSL1149-(x), the newest member of its Scanflex JTAG/boundary scan hardware family Supporting FireWire (IEEE1394), USB2.0 as well as 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet, the new SFX controller family offers three serial high speed interfaces and includes three models for different performance requirements
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Jul 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Furthermore, in addition to the market introduction of this new controller series, Scanflex received the annual "Best in test" award in the board and system test category, arguably the most important award in the international test and measurement industry.
"With the new controller family we are now supporting the three major wired serial interfaces with just one single device", said Thomas Wenzel, Director of the Boundary Scan Business Unit at Goepel Electronic.
"This is another step towards opening our innovative hardware architecture Scanflex for all modern bus standards".
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"Our customers now can easily select the most suitable solution for their individual demands from an even bigger product portfolio especially in terms of flexibility and portability while being able to scale the performance of the test system to match the needs of a particular application".
After SFX/PCI1149, SFX/USL1149 and SFX/PXI1149, the new series SFX/TSL1149-(x) is the fourth family of Scanflex controllers introduced within the last year, and - just like the other controller families - it is available in three different performance classes.
The models differ in the maximum clock frequency (20, 50 and 80MHz) and in the degree of implementation of the enhanced Space chipset for high performance scan operations.
In contrast to conventional solutions, the integrated Fastscale technology allows an upgrade of the controller's performance class "on the fly", without intricate mounting of additional hardware.
Standard features on all Scanflex controllers include ADYCS II for signal path delay compensation, and Hyscan for dynamic splitting of serial TAP vectors and parallel I/O vectors.
In combination with the wide range of the other modular Scanflex components, such as Scanflex TAP transceiver and Scanflex I/O modules, FireWire, USB 2.0 and LAN based boundary scan systems with up to eight concurrent TAPs (test access ports) and 31 additional Scanflex modules can be configured.
All TAPs provide programmable input and output voltage, programmable input and output impedance, programmable clock frequency, programmable delay compensation, readback of the output signals and a relay controlled power signal.
Additionally, resources such as 32 dynamic I/Os, two analogue I/O channels, three static I/Os and trigger lines are standard features.
All SFX controllers, SFX modules and SFX TAP transceivers can be combined with each other, with cable lengths of 5m and more.
This allows an optimal adaptation even to highly complex UUTs and nearly any integration environment.
The new controller SFX/TSL1149-(x) is fully supported in the industry leading System Cascon boundary scan software from version 4.2.1 on and provides features such as hot insertion, DHCP and USB OTG. Request a free brochure from Goepel Electronic ...
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