Commissioning of prototypes
Do you repeatedly experience problems when commissioning your prototypes?
The increasing shortage of skilled workers combined with time sensitive deadlines mean that almost no developer can afford to waste time when validating prototypes.
Often firmware for the new board design is not ready or simply not yet error-free. We will show you how you can quickly check your hardware for soldering and assembly errors, and save an average of two weeks per project on troubleshooting.
Pin-level fault diagnosis
You have a faulty electronics assembly – how quickly can you find the root cause?
To check whether a board is functioning correctly, a functional or end-of-line test is usually implemented at the end of the production line. The aim is not to find failures, but to ensure that there aren’t any. This is because if the failure is found here, it is usually expensive and very time-consuming to repair. We will show you how to locate a hardware failure with pin-level accuracy in just a few seconds.
With ever-increasing amounts of data and rising costs for test and programming fixtures, it makes sense to combine electrical testing with programming. The latter is, of course, only carried out after a PASS test, and a combined test and programming station is desirable.
Efficient prototype commissioning with the SCANFLEX Board Grabber
Do you often wish you had a third hand? Universal board fixture with the option to hold manually placed probes.
Particularly when validating prototypes or testing small lots of boards, a bed-of-nail adapter is often not available for cost reasons. Our Board Grabber can solve this problem effectively.
Debugging, Testing and Programming
Xilinx Zynq-7000-SoCs (System-on-Chip)
The Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable System-on-Chip (SoC) series offers a high level of programmability to the highly flexible design of SoC-based solutions.
Main application areas of the Zynq devices are control, communication, safety technology, system management and system analysis.
The in-system technology ChipVORX configurates and controls test, debug and programming functions for the Zynq 7000 SoCs. The ChipVORX models contain all necessary structural and functional information for controlling the embedded hardware at the command level.
The electrical test with the JTAG/Boundary Scan
HANZA Beyers GmbH is a medium-sized contract manufacturer, based in Mönchengladbach. The company works on behalf of OEM customers from the telecommunications , medical and building technology sectors. There are increasing enquiries from the fields of Intelligent electronics for Industry 4.0 and Smart Home applications. From Pilot Series and Prototypes to batch sizes of 50,000, the production scales flexibly and also implements demanding technological customer requirements.
Challenge
- in some cases customers require an error tolerance of <1%
- difficult testability due to high use of BGA and missing test points
- supplement to In-Circuit Test necessary
- compliance with Cycle rates
Application Example Infineon
Testing and Programming Infineon Automotive Power ICs with VarioTAP
The latest generation of the Infineon AURIX MultiCore devices and the TLE987x family from the field of automotive and embedded power are particularly suitable for control applications such as:
- fuel pumps
- HVAC blower systems
- sensor-based motor control
- safety-critical applications
Challenge
Space-saving BGA or VQFN-48 packages usually don’t allow direct contact with external instruments.
Our Solution
VarioTAP provides access to the built-in resources through its test structures. This allows generation of static and dynamic test patterns, which can also be combined with other test methods (e.g. Boundary Scan). As a result, structural tests are expanded, functional and diagnostic tests are possible in the first place.
Functional Circuit Tests for Energy-Efficient i.MX6 Multimedia Processors from NXP
Based on the ARM® Cortex ™ -A9 architecture with up to four cores, the i.MX6 processors from NXP have been specifically designed for entertainment, industrial and automotive applications. The focus of the functionality is a combination of the latest 3D / 2D HD graphics technology with efficient energy management.