March 7, 2011. GOEPEL electronic has introduced ESA Coach, an evaluation and training kit supporting Embedded System Access (ESA) technologies. The ESA Coach demonstration board and tutorials support training on ESA technologies such as boundary scan, processor emulation test, and chip-embedded instrumentation and in addition allow for the development and validation of individual intellectual property (IP) blocks.
“The advancing paradigm change from intrusive test to Embedded System Access requires corresponding knowledge and technology transfer, which we are able to excellently support by our new ESA Coach,” said Jan Heiber, application support manager with GOEPEL electronic’s Boundary Scan Division. “Practically training newest test and programming strategies enables users to solve access problems caused by intrusive methods. Simultaneously, users receive a lot of suggestions for process improvements throughout the entire product life cycle, and for holistic approaches to reduce costs.”
In addition to a microcontroller with ARM core, the ESA Coach includes an FPGA, various boundary-scan circuits, NAND and NOR flash, and DDR2 SDRAM as well as a color display and diverse operating elements. All ESA technologies such as FPGA-assisted test, FPGA-assisted programming, processor emulation test, core assisted programming, boundary scan, in-system programming, and chip embedded instrumentation can be demonstrated and compared. Furthermore, the demonstration board provides an extension connector and various fault switches in order to verify the single test operations’ diagnosis ability.
The Kit also contains a demo version of SYSTEM CASCON Release 4.6 as well as associated VarioTAP and ChipVORX models for processor emulation or controlling FPGA-embedded instruments.
GOEPEL electronic, www.goepel.com.
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