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kDiagnostics embedded circuit board test tool software for MPC8544 and MPC8544E Freescale PowerQUICC III processors allows claimed embedded functional testing and fault isolation for processors and circuit board designs.

Features of the MPC8544E supported by kDiagnostics reportedly include: e500 Core, L1 Instruction Cache, L1 Data Cache, DDR/DDR2 Controller, Local Bus Controller, Programmable Interrupt Controller, DUART, two eTSEC Controllers (10/100/1000), PCI, PCI Express, and the DMA Controller. Standard hardware test suites also include focus, flow, and stress testing for USB, SATA, Gigabit Ethernet, and other components.

Other features of the kDiagnostics release include port to port Ethernet testing, remote communications over a local area network, protected image transfers to reject corrupted images, and improved user guides for test methodologies and test execution.

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JTAG Technologies has released the JT 2147/AGP for use with Aeroflex in-circuit testers (ICTs), allowing the 4200 Series systems to be interfaced with JTAG's boundary-scan controller.

The JT 2147/AGP allows boundary-scan test access port (TAP) signals within the ICT system for claimed improvement in signal integrity and simplified fixture design. The company claims that the JT 2147/AGP can be installed on the Aeroflex GPIO custom interface module to provide ground isolation plus a switching matrix to route TAP signals to pins on the test fixture.

Users of integrated JTAG Technologies products benefit from claimed off-line, fixtureless test preparation and the re-use of stand-alone applications at other stages of the product life cycle such as prototyping and field service, with increased cost-effectiveness through reduced test fixture complexity.

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DesignAdvance Systems, Inc., has announced the release of CircuitProbe, which enables bi-directional communication, through IPC, between layout and a PDF of the schematic.

The company claims that the tool gives designers and engineers the ability to select design elements in either Cadence Allegro Viewer environment in or a PDF of the schematic, and have the corresponding design elements selected in the other application.

"As a current DesignAdvance customer, we see the combined solution ... adding value throughout our entire PCB design cycle," stated Greg Bodi, of NVIDIA Corporation.

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Apache Design Solutions has introduced Sentinel-PI chip-package-system design and analysis software, allowing SoC-Aware modeling and analysis of power delivery network for IC package and PCB designers.

The company claims that Sentinel-PI provides 3-D full-wave power network extraction and power integrity analysis for package and PCB designs, and allows designers to perform resistance check and static IR-drop analysis (DC), frequency-domain simulation, including impedance analysis of multi-port power delivery network of the chip, package and board (AC), and time-domain dynamic voltage drop analysis (transient).

“Semiconductor and system companies are looking to chip-package-system co-design to help mitigate risk, optimize cost, and improve productivity. Sentinel-PI is the company’s first product that addresses the system-wide power and noise challenges from IC, to package, to PCB.”

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