GOEPEL Accelerates Boundary Scan for Multiple Boards
March 26, 2012. GOEPEL electronic has announced the availability of a new “Board Merger” function within its SYSTEM CASCON boundary-scan software platform. The newly developed tool supports a completely project-oriented definition of the multi board target architecture, subsequently enabling the automatic generation of a consistent project database while maintaining original signal designations and board characteristics. The new features target complex projects based on integrated system backplanes or for motherboards with multi slot interface.
“Our newly developed Board Merger solves the problem of defining multi-board applications fast and modularly. Moreover, it enables the flexible reconfiguration of existent projects without regeneration and loss of the original signal designations,” said Thomas Wenzel, GOEPEL electronic’s managing director of the boundary scan division. “In addition to an increase in productivity in handling such applications, debugging is facilitated and diagnostic information quality is improved.”
The new Board Merger handles each single board as an individual object with bequeathing properties. Connections between single objects are initiated by respective referencing, maintaining the original net designation. I/O modules can be inscribed into the principle as so-called adapters. If modules of the same type are utilized, the whole process is handled through simple duplicating. After referencing all boards, the data basis is generated in a single step. Configuration changes—for example, by means of non-mounted boards or missing I/O modules—can easily be hidden, making a regeneration unnecessary. Thus, the solution is highly flexible and transparent for users. In the subsequent project processing, the entire original data basis is directly available for all other tools, such as debugger, a visualizer, and test-coverage analyzers.
The new Board Merger is integrated as standard in the SYSTEM CASCON development package from version V4.6 onwards. Product shipment has already started being free-of-charge for users with valid maintenance contract.
GOEPEL electronic GmbH, www.goepel.com.
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