RICHARDSON, Texas--ASSET® InterTech Inc., (www.asset-intertech.com) an international leader in boundary-scan (JTAG/IEEE 1149.1) test and in-system programming (ISP), has enhanced its ScanWorks boundary-scan (JTAG) system, increasing its openness to third-party technologies and products. The new features are contained in a new version of ScanWorks (version 3.8) and make ScanWorks the most open boundary-scan system among any of the proprietary JTAG systems available today.

“What’s critical to ScanWorks users is test coverage,” said Alan Sguigna, ASSET’s vice president of sales and marketing. “The more test coverage ScanWorks can provide them, the better they like it. By opening ScanWorks so that it will function with technologies from other companies and third-parties we are extending the test coverage provided by ScanWorks and making it a more valuable tool for our users.”

ScanWorks supports greater openness through several new features, including External I/O Management, which automates and includes a graphical interface for testing the structural integrity of signals that are routed off the circuit board through a connector. To extend JTAG test coverage to these external signals, a hardware I/O module is needed, such as ASSET’s Boundary Scan 400 I/O module (BSIO-400), the AccessExtender™ family of modules from third-party JEK-Tech (www.jek-tech.com) of Nashua, NH, or a module designed by the user.

Open to Lifecycle Analytics

Another new feature of ScanWorks opens the JTAG test system to the data mining probes of SigmaQuest (www.sigmaquest.com), a supplier of automated test and quality data management systems. SigmaQuest’s systems gather information across multiple geographies, test technologies and the supply chain. By integrating SigmaQuests’ products with ScanWorks, users are able to leverage consolidated business intelligence across much of their operations. ScanWorks data can be consolidated across all phases of a product’s lifecycle, assisting the analysis of failures and maximizing a product’s profit generation.

About ASSET InterTech

ASSET InterTech, Inc. develops, markets, sells, and supports boundary-scan testability and in-system programming (ISP) products worldwide. ASSET’s affordable ScanWorks® environment is easy yet powerful.

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