The Remote Instrumentation Controller (RIC) family from Asset InterTech is reportedly the industry’s first to apply JTAG/boundary scan tests directly over the Internet. The first member of the family, the RIC-1000 controller, connects locally to a circuit board or other unit under test (UUT) and remotely over Ethernet to an ScanWorks embedded instrumentation platform from Asset. The company is a leading supplier of open tools for embedded instrumentation. “The world wide web changed the way we live and work. On a smaller scale, we believe that our Remote Instrumentation Controller family will do the same sort of thing for design validation, test and debug,” said Alan Sguigna, vice president of sales and marketing for Asset. “We’ve added another dimension to test by placing it outside of place and time. And, in terms of cost-effectiveness, the RIC family gives both large and small companies the ability to pinpoint their human and test technology resources wherever and whenever they are needed.”
The RIC-1000 incorporates local intelligence and implements a client/server architecture in relation to a remote ScanWorks station. Each RIC can be assigned an Internet Protocol (IP) address. As a result, a test engineer at a ScanWorks station in the United States could apply tests via a Remote Instrumentation Controller over the Internet on a circuit board being manufactured in a factory in Asia, for example. The need for a ScanWorks test station running on a personal computer and other equipment local to the Remote Instrumentation Controller and the circuit board being tested is eliminated. In fact, one ScanWorks station can access and apply tests through any number of RICs located anywhere in the world. Through its ScanWorks platform Asset is applying the experience it has gained from two decades as a leading supplier of boundary-scan test tools utilizing JTAG access to the development of open embedded instrumentation tools. The boundary scan infrastructure that is embedded into chips and circuit boards is one of several technologies that can form the basis for an embedded instrumentation tool-set. In recent years, Asset has significantly enhanced its platform with embedded instrumentation capabilities such as CPU-emulation functional test and many others.
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