Agilent to Collaborate with ASTER for Seamless Test Coverage Analysis across Test Platforms

(Top News, 23 Mar 2009)

Agilent Technologies Inc. has announced its strategic partnership with ASTER to enable integration of ASTER’s “TestWay Coverage Analyst (TCA)” across Agilent’s printed circuit board assembly test platforms. The TestWay Coverage Analyst provides a push button test coverage analysis tool for coverage estimation (pre-test program development) and coverage measurement (post-test program measurement) using PCOLA-SOQ for the Agilent Medalist i3070 and i1000 platforms and various other test and inspection equipments on the user’s production line, such as optical and X-Ray inspection, boundary scan tester, MDA and functional test.

The tool is able to objectively calculate the theoretical coverage from the earliest stage in the product development cycle using CAD files, and measure the real coverage from the developed test programs. This allows users to best manage the overall test solution by making coverage comparisons and optimizing the production test strategies. Through this optimization process, production test costs can be saved by the shortening of the production test planning time and the saving of overall test cycle time and resources.