Embedded Instrumentation Has Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series Designs Covered, by Tim Caffee, Vice President, Design Validation, ASSET InterTech, Inc.

Circuit boards featuring the recently introduced Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series (codenamed Nehalem) have unique test and validation needs. Non-intrusive test technologies based on embedded instrumentation vow to provide the required test and validation coverage. Such coverage has become increasingly critical because it has diminished in recent years from older, intrusive test technologies like in-circuit test (ICT), manufacturing defect analyzers (MDAs), flying probe testers, and others. As a result, non-intrusive embedded instrumentation test technologies will be required to thoroughly test and validate new embedded applications featuring this processor series.

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