ASSET's New Internet-Based Controller Family Enables World Wide Test.

Remote Instrumentation Controller is First to Use the Internet to Free Test Application from One PC in One Location

RICHARDSON, Texas -- The new Remote Instrumentation Controller family from ASSET[R] InterTech (www.asset-intertech.com) is 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 ASSET ScanWorks[R] embedded instrumentation platform.

ASSET is the 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 Remote Instrumentation Controller 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 Remote Instrumentation Controllers located anywhere in the world.

Pricing and Availability

The first member of the Remote Instrumentation Controller family, the RIC-1000, is available now at a price of $5,995.

ScanWorks[R] - The Embedded Instrumentation Platform

ASSET, through its ScanWorks platform, 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. In recent years, ASSET has significantly enhanced its ScanWorks[R] platform with embedded instrumentation capabilities such as CPU-emulation functional test, signal integrity analysis utilizing embedded Intel[R] IBIST (Interconnect Built In Self Test) technology and others.

ASSET InterTech - Driving Embedded Instrumentation

ASSET InterTech is a supplier of open tools for embedded instrumentation to engineers doing design validation, test and debug. The ScanWorks platform provides automation, access and analysis tools in one environment. Users can quickly and easily validate and test semiconductors, circuit boards or entire systems during every phase of a product's life, including design, manufacturing/repair and field maintenance. In addition, chips can be programmed in-system after they have been soldered to a circuit board. ASSET's MicroMaster product line employs CPU emulation technology to perform extensive functional test and diagnostic routines on circuit boards and chips, and to program logic and memory devices in-system at high CPU speeds. ASSET InterTech is located outside of Dallas, TX, at 2201 North Central Expressway, Suite 105, Richardson, TX 75080.

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