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News Release from: JTAG Technologies | Subject: Symphony for 3070
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 April 2003
Agilent testers upgrade to boundary scan
Symphony for 3070 comprises a complete hardware and software boundary-scan upgrade package for the Agilent 307x family of in-circuit testers.
JTAG Technologies announces the availability of Symphony for 3070, a complete hardware and software boundary-scan upgrade package for the Agilent 307x family of in-circuit testers With this low-cost upgrade, users of Agilent Unix- or PC-based 3070 systems will be able to execute at their existing ICT high-speed flash programming and high quality tests prepared with the JTAG Technologies development tools
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Jul 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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As with other JTAG Technologies software products, users will benefit from interchangeability, ie the ability to transport freely their test and programming applications across PC and Unix software application development and execution environments.
Symphony for 3070 can be ordered immediately from JTAG Technologies.
Pricing for a complete upgrade package for a Unix-based 307x test system is less than $23,000 and for a PC-based 307x test system less than $20,000.
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Symphony for 3070 delivers a superior combination of boundary-scan techniques from JTAG Technologies with the ICT Techniques from Agilent Technologies, drawing on the benefits of each while emphasising excellent cost-effectiveness.
Fixture complexity is greatly reduced as boundary-scan provides the test access for most digital portions of the unit under test.
Furthermore, Symphony for 3070 is built on a modular and flexible system architecture, giving users their choice to use either a Unix- or PC-based operating system.
Therefore, Symphony for 3070 allows application development and production testing/programming to take place under different operating systems for optimal utilisation and flexibility in using capital-intensive (computer) resources.
As a result, with Symphony for 3070, existing ICT users who desire to retain their Unix environments need not convert to Windows.
For example, a development organisation may generate complete boundary-scan applications on Windows-based workstations, and run the applications seamlessly at a UNIX-based Agilent 307x production system.
Or, users can now start with Symphony for 3070 at the Unix based Agilent 3070 ICT and migrate to the PC-based ICT without extra investments, because Symphony for 3070 can easily be ported from Unix to PC.
This freedom eliminates disruption to the production platform, avoids the need for retraining of operating personnel, and assures that Unix durability or boundary-scan capability is retained.
Symphony for 3070 is a powerful solution to the problem facing many designers and manufacturers of high-density printed circuit boards: how to regain electrical access to assemblies that are becoming so complex that physical test-point access is very limited, and in some cases impossible.
Despite incurred dramatically more expensive test fixtures, ICT users have endured decreasing test coverage, thereby allowing more board faults to escape from structural testing to functional testing.
For an increasing number of applications, the answer to this problem has become boundary-scan, the technology based on IEEE1149.1 that provides high accessibility to the PCB for testing without the need for physical contact to a large number of test points. Request a free brochure from JTAG Technologies ...
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