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kDiagnostics® Design Suite
Standard diagnostic tests; detailed reports; rapid troubleshooting – all on your custom hardware
For designers of 32-bit embedded systems who must deliver high quality quickly and at low cost, Kozio's kDiagnostics® Design Suite pairs the proven power of Kozio's In-system Diagnostics platform with ValidationAssistant™. kDiagnostics is a comprehensive, configurable, and cost-effective hardware validation suite that provides an extensible and reusable solution, including comprehensive functional and performance tests for all system components, including the processor, memory, busses, and peripherals for storage, connectivity, display (image and video) and audio. ValidationAssistant gives development engineers easy access to the visualize and configure their board diagnostic test methods and suites; to execute them individually or together; and to view reports for status and fault isolation.
The full Kozio solution is 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 Design Suite is positioned for design and development engineers wishing to ensure their board designs fully and correctly meet specification, and delivers high test throughput and superior levels of coverage, along with a user-interface targeted to the tasks required for board validation.
Accelerate board bring-up
From a schematic or hardware description, Kozio personalizes the test methods and suites to a unique target board, delivering a standalone executable containing boot manager, diagnostics application, real-time test executive, database of test methods, scripting language and interactive interpreter. Users connect a host computer to the target platform, download the kDiagnostics executable, and within minutes have a full diagnostic report giving board status, device by device.
Isolate errors
Users can execute the full system test suite, or select an individual test for fault isolation. Test status is provided interactively, and displayed for each test method and suite. Using the interactive interpreter and scripting language built into kDiagnostics, the comprehensive test method library provided can be modified, or (with the addition of the Design Suite Pro option) customized test primitives can be added, and new, user-customized versions of kDiagnostics compiled.
Deploy across product life-cycle
The proven Kozio platform provides an extensible test process, usable at all stages of your product lifecycle. From design validation, through automating end of line manufacturing test and programming, to in-field power-on self-test, Kozio’s solution brings performance, precision and power.
Unlike resource-intensive and error-prone development of custom tests, or using application software to test hardware, Kozio’s proven software gives the fastest path to fully-functional hardware.
Features
Comprehensive test methods and suites verify each system function and sub-system
Tests are run at full operating speed, on your target hardware, with broadest and deepest data path coverage
Personalized to your unique system, and delivered to you within two weeks. Schedule Kozio's software and your prototype boards to be delivered at the same time, and you can ensure early hardware stability
Provides "out-of-the-box" thorough hardware test and diagnostics, including detailed failure report for fault identification
Includes an interactive interpreter for user control and configuration of individual tests and test execution; a scripting language provides flexibility for user-created content and execution
Flexible and user-extensible makes it easy for you to extend your functional testing to custom logic, ASICs or FPGAs
Benefits
Thorough test coverage improves validation integrity, resulting in fewer escapes to manufacturing or field
At-speed tests find problems missed by other approaches (e.g. structural test or emulated functional test)
Improved test development and execution productivity: full functional test within minutes of power-on
Early robust and reliable hardware eases later tasks, e.g. application software development, system integration
Probe, explore and dump working circuit configurations to speed driver development
Optimize your design, test and diagnostic resources by leveraging and extending this unique and proven platform
Support from validation and silicon experts with decades of embedded design expertise
Use kDiagnostics to ensure that your board design meets functional specifications, or use Kozio's complete In-system Diagnostics platform across your whole product life-cycle. More thoroughly test your board.
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