April, 2011
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QSI Corporation deploys XJTAG through development, production and service
In activities spanning board development, contract assembly, and after-sales service, XJTAG boundary scan is enabling QSI Corporation, the American developer of rugged embedded systems, to shorten time- consuming test tasks and pinpoint hard-to-find faults such as bad vias in multi-layer boards – and deliver powerful capabilities without requiring expensive add-ons.
QSI Corporation, located in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, designs and manufactures rugged Human Machine Interface (HMI) modules and Mobile Data Terminals (MDT) for industrial OEMs and commercial vehicle systems integrators. The company’s products include character and graphic terminals tested to comply with standards such as NEMA, IP, MIL-STD, CE, and UL. The terminals withstand high levels of shock, vibration, humidity, and other environmental conditions. They are programmable, customisable, and feature many configurable hardware options to match customers’ exact needs.
The boards for QSI’s HMI and
MDT products are assembled by a manufacturing partner, which tests the finished boards using fixtures provided by QSI. However, if a defect prevents the core logic from operating, the fixture cannot be used. QSI has overcome this challenge by incorporating the XJTAG boundary scan system into the test equipment provided. The run-time-only XJTAG variant, XJRunner, makes this a cost- effective option. QSI is also using XJTAG in their own technical departments, including engineering and product servicing.
Because the company’s products
are subjected to rigorous usage in the field, QSI aims to provide responsive service and repair facilities for their customers. Using conventional test techniques to diagnose faults in returned units, service engineers could expect to spend more than one hour per board to probe all of the data, address and control lines. “Using XJTAG in our service
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department has taken a one- to two-hour task and solved it in 15 minutes,” explains Eric Anderson, Electrical Test Engineer at QSI.
According to Anderson, two of the
most powerful aspects of XJTAG that have enabled this dramatic speed up are the XJEase high-level scripting language and the graphical environment that helps users set up
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projects and visualise the circuit under test. “The scripting language is a very powerful feature that allows us to test almost any device connected to the processor. We are using it to test components from LEDs to ROMs,” Anderson continues. “Moreover, we can test devices supporting interfaces such as I2Cand SPI without having to buy expensive add-ons, which some other systems require. XJTAG provides online libraries that allow us to test these devices at no extra cost.”
Describing XJTAG’s graphical application, XJAnalyser, Anderson highlights the control it provides as being central to reducing test and debugging time. “XJAnalyser gives us complete control of most of the
Eric Anderson Electrical Test Engineer QSI Corporation
pins of a processor,” he says. “We are able to toggle individual pins, which has helped trace obscure faults like bad vias in minutes rather than hours.”
The QSI engineering group is also
using XJTAG to bring up new designs. The company’s latest board has two JTAG devices, and Anderson says the engineering team has used XJTAG to program and test one of the devices, and then to test the remainder of the product. “There is so much freedom in XJTAG that other testers do not provide. As engineers, we want to be able to control every part and see exactly what is happening at any place in the system. XJTAG gives us that freedom,” he concludes.
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minutes. The XJEase scripting language is a very powerful feature that allows us to test almost any device connected to the processor. We can test devices from LEDs to ROMs, and can also test I2Cand SPI devices without having to buy expensive add-ons.
“XJTAG has taken a one- to two-hour task and solved it in 15
minutes. As engineers, we want to be able to control every part and see exactly what is happening at any place in the system. XJTAG gives us that freedom.
See us at APEX Booth 1365 “We can also toggle individual pins to trace obscure faults within ”
Company Nature of
business
QSI Corporation HQ USA
Design and manufacture
operator interface terminals for industrial, commercial and vehicle applications
Main product Rugged, configurable human machine interface (HMI) and mobile data terminal (MDT) products
Customers Location
Incorporated Web site
Industrial OEMs and commercial vehicle systems integrators
Salt Lake City, USA 1983
www.qsicorp.com www.xjtag.com
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