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Kozio: The Fastest Path to Reliable Hardware


THE CHALLENGE


Today, embedded systems designers face an increasing number of complex challenges as they strive to increase the functionality, intelligence and competitiveness of their designs. As the trend towards pervasive, networked electronics continues to accelerate, designers must find ways to reduce the size, cost and power consumption of their PC boards while improving performance and interoperability. Competition adds pressure to shorten product lifecycles and produce products with razor-thin profit margins. Management and engineers see increased pressure on time-to-market, squeezing development and manufacturing schedules.

Design Trend
15 years ago
10 years ago
2008
2009
Total area (in2)
101
76
80
75
# Pin to pin connections
5190
7661
7710
10960
# components
649
1120
2263
3399
# component pins
4214
5790
9909
13505
Source: Mentor Graphic Technology leadership Awards Results

  • Based on current design trends, PCB designs started this year are expected to exceed 5100 components
  • Test development ranges from hours to days depending on component complexity
  • Total time to provide full functional tests can easily exceed 20 engineering months!!



THE SOLUTION


Kozio provides customers with solutions to improve validation and in-systems diagnostics processes producing the fastest path to reliable hardware and significantly shortened time-to-market for new products.


Design for Testability, Semiconductor Testing, USB JTAG Programmer & Debugger, PCB Testing, Boundary Scan, & Goepel from Kozio


Leading-edge technology and innovative engineering teams deserve leading-edge tools. Using Kozio's proven in-system diagnostics, design engineers, software developers, test engineers and field application engineers have immediate access to exceptional test and debug solutions throughout the lifecycle of their 32-bit processor-based embedded systems, as well as an extensive test library and custom documentation for each board.


KOZIO SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS


Kozio supplies a fully-integrated and pre-configured solution comprised of a suite of software tools for design validation and board bring-up, binary image downloading, in-system programming, automated board testing and in-field power-on self-test.

kDIAGNOSTICS and kDIAGNOSTICS PRO

Kozio’s kDiagnostics Design Suite provides design and development engineers with confidence that their board designs fully and accurately meet specifications. kDiagnostics delivers high test throughput, superior levels of coverage, and a user-interface targeted to simplifying the tasks required for board validation.


Customers using kDiagnostics can expect:


  • The broadest data path coverage in the industry
  • Fast, automatic troubleshooting with maximum control
  • Increased productivity and predictability
  • Standardized diagnostic tests across functional areas
  • Detailed reports for management and cross-functional feedback
  • A significant reduction in project risk
  • The lowest cost in time and dollars to shippable product


‘Tested by Kozio’ projects greatly exceed the most stringent quality and reliability requirements.


kDiagnostics: 
Kozio’s 32-bit validation tool provides an interactive interpreter and the ability to write, save, restore and execute user-written test scripts. Combined with ValidationAssistant™ for board validation and bring-up, customers have a complete validation and verification solution.


Need more?


kDiagnostics Design Suite Pro: kDiagnostics bundled with a comprehensive development kit to support the creation of procedures to test custom logic, FPGA or ASIC embedded components.

Design for Testability, Semiconductor Testing, USB JTAG Programmer & Debugger, PCB Testing, Boundary Scan, & Goepel from Kozio


KOZIO SOLUTIONS for ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING and CUSTOMER SERVICE

Kozio’s extensive product line provides intuitive interfaces to simplify test configuration, execution, management, results reporting and analysis. ValidationAssistant™, SequenceRunner™ and SequenceReporter™ integrate seamlessly with both kDiagnostics design suites allowing customers to greatly extend their test capabilities.


Design for Testability, Semiconductor Testing, USB JTAG Programmer & Debugger, PCB Testing, Boundary Scan, & Goepel from Kozio


Fast track your custom board validation

Call +1.303.776-1356 ext 1 or email sales@kozio.com with your board description.

All we need to personalize kDiagnostics for your design is your board schematic.

Kozio delivers working code, ready to run out-of-the-box, within two weeks.

 

 

   
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