Kozio Supports 405EX AMCC Processors with kDiagnostics™ Hardware Test Automation

Providing the best data path validation in record time

Longmont, CO, October 30, 2007 – Kozio, Inc., the leading provider of automated hardware functional test for design and manufacturing, has released functional test support for custom boards using the 405EX processor. This processor is a new addition to AMCC's line of processors and Kozio is the only vendor to provide processor-optimized functional test and debug for the 405EX.

In addition to the launch of kDiagnostics™ for the PowerPC® 405EX, Kozio offers extensive test packages for circuit boards using other processors in the PowerPC 405 product line, including the 405EZ, 405EP, 405GP, 405GPr, and the entire PowerPC 440xx product line.

kDiagnostics from Kozio is a comprehensive, highly configurable, and proven validation environment that allows designers to rapidly test and troubleshoot microprocessor-based controllers and devices. It provides an end-to-end test solution for companies designing and delivering new products.

Customers use Kozio solutions to test and troubleshoot board-level design and assembly issues. A number of sample uses of the Kozio solution include:

• Automated functional test execution with results tracking and flexible control over test sequence creation.
• Best data path test coverage of the processor buses, memories and standard peripherals.
• As a platform to add their own custom tests for FPGAs and ASICs.
• Full-speed memory diagnostics which has discovered faults that slower test methods did not find.
• Improved hardware fault discovery and resolution with thousands of proven test cases.

kDiagnostics is delivered as a development kit which produces binary applications ready for execution, either from ROM or RAM, directly on the target microprocessor. kDiagnostics is configured from existing libraries to meet the requirements of your hardware platform. The user can extend the product using Kozio's development kit for adding custom drivers and test suites.  Once running on your system, a single command tests the entire system and reports simple pass or fail results for each subsystem, such as Flash, Ethernet, voice, USB, PCI Express, SRIO, SDRAM, etc. For troubleshooting, kDiagnostics provides a command shell interface with multiple levels of tracing to drill down and isolate hardware faults.  

Availability
Kozio test software for custom boards using 405EX processors is available now. 

For more information on Kozio's products, visit www.kozio.com/products/ or contact
Kozio at +1 (303) 776-1356. Kozio is a member of the Power.org® community.

About Kozio, Inc.
Kozio provides proven hardware tools to test circuit boards for embedded systems.  Our tools compliment other technologies such as ICT, JTAG and Boundary Scan by providing functional test during design and manufacturing. Our diagnostics platform includes test suites for flash, memory, DDR, serial, PCI Express, USB and many other embedded technologies from AMCC, Freescale, Intel, Broadcom, Micron, and others. Our extensible test architecture gives the design and production processes more visibility and better automation, with control of their hardware. Kozio’s embedded test has become the leading software for board bring-up, manufacturing test, power-on self-test (POST), technical support, and returns testing. 

Kozio software reduces project schedule risk and development costs while increasing test coverage and end-product reliability. Kozio products are used by technology companies across the globe. For more information, please visit www.kozio.com.

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