XJTAG Solution Speeds Test Development

Cambridge Broadband www.xjtag.com

XJTAG solution speeds test development Cambridge Broadband, a fixed wireless access solutions provider, needed a boundary scan test solution t“hat was fast, versatile, easy-to-use and portable, for use by its engineers for debug and testing early prototypes; by its contract manufacturing partners for production testing ” Board designers and test engineers will be familiar with the agreement to make the XJTAG the product lifecycle. challenges of testing and debugging boards featuring fine pitch Development System available in “Speed of deployment of our BGA components. Without access to BGA interconnects hidden key global locations including the VectaStar system is our key under the component, the developer’s trusty oscilloscope and UK, China and Malaysia. The competitive advantage so it was logic analyser can offer little help. However, the ability to debug System is being used by Cambridge important that we adopted a test a design at an early stage is crucial to success. The XJTAG Broadband’s contract manufacturing solution that was fast, versatile, Development System aims to solve these challenges and also partner, Benchmark Electronics, for easy-to-use and portable. It also allows test programs to be re-used and optimised for production testing production boards. had to be able to test BGA devices,” testing and field service activities. The sales success of Cambridge added Alistair Massarella. “What’s Broadband’s VectaStar system – great about XJTAG is its ability to The powerful and easy-to-use Speed of deployment of its which is being increasingly adopted test JTAG and non-JTAG devices – XJTAG Development System is boards and systems into the market by network operators as an our boards are a mixture of both – designed to cut the cost and shorten place is its key competitive alternative broadband access and perhaps, most importantly, is the development cycle of electronic advantage and this prompted the solution providing data rates up to the fact that XJTAG test scripts are products and provides a unique supplier to sign a multiple licence 1.2 Gbps with guaranteed quality of reusable and portable across solution that can test JTAG as well service – means that there are different boards which saves our as non-JTAG devices. XJTAG can already thousands of units and engineers so much time.” test a high proportion of a circuit printed circuit boards deployed including BGA and chip scale globally. With 20 different boards in devices, SDRAMs, Ethernet its portfolio and lots of new controllers, video interfaces, flash development in the pipeline, its memories, FPGAs (Field engineers needed a solution that Programmable Gate Arrays), could be used at various stages in microprocessors and many other devices. XJTAG also enables In- System Programming of FPGAs, Alistair Massarella, Data opinion co-founder and head of product CPLDs (Complex Programmable integration at Cambridge Bank Logic Devices) and flash memories. Broadband An active member of the WiMAX Forum™, Cambridge Broadband We assessed the solutions from several leading boundary Company Cambridge Broadband Limited has pioneered the development of Nature of Fixed wireless access scan test suppliers and opted for the XJTAG Development carrier-class, point-to-multipoint “ business solutions provider System because of its price, reusability of scripts and its broadband wireless access Main product VectaStar carrierclass ‘unbeatable’ speed of test development. Using XJTAG we can broadband wireless system equipment for network operators Customers Telecoms operators wishing to deploy high-capacity, now test and debug our boards in days as opposed to weeks and we don’t need dedicated people. This product has Market Global telecoms sector multi-service networks. The Locations UK, Spain, China, company is focused on delivering transformed our test regime, our designers are now JTAG Malaysia, high quality multi-service networks aware and we are getting our boards into the field far more North America, South Africa, India with the best price-performance in quickly than before. Web site www.cambridgebroadband.com the licensed band worldwide. ”