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Satellite Ground Systems Meet Sky-High Targets, with XJTAG Boundary Scan ®
Satellite-systems expert Kongsberg Spacetec is driving up efficiency throughout electronic design and assembly, benefiting from XJTAG’s high functionality, cost effectiveness and ease of use. The XJTAG Development System helps engineers speed up prototyping and optimise test coverage, while XJRunner enables Spacetec’s manufacturing partner to repair production boards efficiently on site.
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Kongsberg Spacetec AS, based in Tromsø, Norway, is a leading provider of satellite ground station systems for earth observation satellites. The company provides turnkey systems aswellasspecialised solutions forenvironmental and meteorological surveillance, such as sea-surface temperature measurement, cloud analysis, oil-spill analysis, or ship detection. Spacetec also provides customer services including systems engineering, training, maintenance and support.
The ground station systems perform functions such as signal processing, communication and networking, and use high- performance servers featuring PCI cards designed by Spacetec’s electronic engineering team. The server cards use high-bandwidth standards such as PCI-X and PCI Express, and include multiple high- performance processors, FPGAs, and high-speed FIFOs and RAMs. The boards are extremely complex and densely populated, and present tough test challenges from the beginning of design through to final production. Many of the devices are housed in BGA or chip-scale packages that cannot be probed orvisually inspected.
“We are using boundary scan tools
early in the design phase to assess the testability of our boards, and to help with any design changes necessary to reach our test coverage targets,” explains Øyvind Undstad, one of Spacetec’s electronic designers. “The XJTAG system provides the capabilities we need at a very competitive price, and is very
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easy to use. Initially, the time to get the system up and running, and performing productive tests, was a matter of hours; other systems can require a few days’ effort.”
The XJTAG boundary scan system
provides many features that help speed up test preparation, including XJDeveloper, a graphical application providing a simple-to-use interface, automatic scan-chain detection, and alargelibrary of testsforstandard
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parts. XJTAG’s high-level test description language, XJEase, delivers the flexibility of a programming language, such as loops, variables and flow control, for engineers developing device and circuit tests. Tests can also be re-used in subsequent projects, since device tests written in XJEase are independent of the specific circuit under test.
“XJTAG helps us assess each
design at an early stage, by supporting design verification and DFT analysis,” continues Øyvind Undstad. The built-in Design For test (DFT) feature allows engineers to see the board’s test coverage, while the advanced connection test helps pinpoint errors and is able to test a higher percentage
Øyvind Undstad Electronic Engineer Kongsberg Spacetec AS
Øyvind Undstad Electronic Engineer Kongsberg Spacetec AS
test“XJTAG helps us to assess our designs and reach high targets for XJTAG helps us to assess our designs and reach high targets for
test coverage. The XJTAG system provides the capabilities we need at coverage. The XJTAG system provides the capabilities we need at
avery competitive price, andis very easyto use. After takingdelivery, we were performing productive tests within a matter of hours.
can“Our manufacturing partner is using the XJRunner system, which Our manufacturing partner is using the XJRunner system, which
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defects to be identified at manufacture and repaired immediately, which saves shipping boards back to us for fault finding. Overall, XJTAG is helping us increase test coverage, quality and productivity.
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can run the tests we develop in our labs. This allows most assembly defects to be identified at manufacture and repaired immediately, which saves shipping boards back to us for fault finding. Overall, XJTAG is helping us increase test coverage, quality and productivity.
run the tests we develop in our labs. This allows most assembly
a very competitive price, and is very easy to use. After taking delivery, we were performing productive tests within a matter of hours.
of the circuit than most other JTAG systems.
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XJTAG is also in action at Spacetec’s manufacturing partner, Noca AS, which has several XJRunner stations on its production lines. Øyvind Undstad explains, “We provide boundary scan tests for the Noca team to use directly on XJRunner. These include interconnection tests, RAM tests, and simple functional testing of non-JTAG components, as well as programming of Flash memory. Most assembly defects can be identified at manufacture and repaired immediately. This avoids having the boards shipped back to us for fault finding by our engineers, which saves valuable time and helps increase productivity.”
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Company
Company Nature of business
Main product Main product
Customers Location
Location Web site
Web site
Nature of World leading supplier of ground business
stations for data acquisition from Earth observation and meteorological satellites
stations for data acquisition from Earth observation and meteorological satellites
Turnkey satellite ground stations,
Customers Large international companies and consortia (NASA, ESA, Eumetsat...)
Large international companies an consortia (NASA, ESA, Eumetsat.
Tromsø, Norway. Kongsberg Group has offices in 25 countries
www.spacetec.no
Tromsø, Norway. Kongsberg Gro has offices in 25 countries
www.spacetec.no www.xjtag.com Turnkey satellite ground stations
data acquisition systems, value added products (optical and SAR)
data acquisition systems, value added products (optical and SAR
Kongsberg Spacetec AS, HQ Norway World leading supplier of ground
Kongsberg Spacetec AS, HQ Norw
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