The faster OEMs and manufacturers can implement ScanWorks and its JTAG capabilities, the sooner they can benefit from boundary scan tests. As a result, some firms have turned to ASSET’s programming services organization, EDFT, to help them get up and running quickly. Digidesign, for instance, needed JTAG tests immediately. ASSET generated an initial set of tests for a particularly dense board and a pin-level problem was identified within minutes of apply the tests. ADC has established a routine of sending a new design’s netlists, schematics and BSDL files to ASSET. In return, ADC receives a JTAG test set that has increased boundary scan test coverage well beyond the 45-50 percent provided by the on-board JTAG devices. And SMT, a contract manufacturer, has little interest in developing JTAG expertise on-staff. Instead, it relies on ASSET whenever new JTAG tests are needed.
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"Our boards have no in-circuit testing (ICT) capability due to extremely high chip density," said John Howard, manufacturing manager for the BATG Division of ADC Telecom Inc., in Cleveland, OH. "There was no room for test points and physical access to the fine pitch pins is very limited. It was taking us up to a month to test, troubleshoot and bring up a batch of 50 boards.With the testability services we've received from ASSET InterTech's Ensure DFT Division, as well as our contractors use of the ASSET boundary scan test and in-system programming system, we can now bring up a batch of boards in hours versus days." 
ScanWorks® Saves Digidesign Time, Stress and Pain. "When a board failed our diagnostic tests, a test technician would spend all day probing it with an oscilloscope until we found where the problem was," said Chris Durocher, manufacturing engineer for Digidesign™, the leading supplier of digital audio recording and editing systems, and winner of a 2001 Technical Grammy award for work performed on the movie, The Mummy Returns. "Now that we have ASSET ScanWorks™, we know exactly where the problem is in seconds. ScanWorks saves us a lot of time, stress and pain." 
When contract manufacturer SMT Unlimited L. P. ran into a high failure rate on a densely populated telecommunications board, Hom-Ming Chang, Vice President of Test Engineering and Information Systems, wasn't sure what he could do to solve the problem. "We really don't have boundary scan (IEEE 1149.1 JTAG) expertise on our staff here," Mr. Chang said. "So we turned to Ensure DFT to help us and they developed a test program for us that's been very successful. In one case, we've gone from having an unacceptably high failure rate to a failure rate close to zero. I'd say that was very successful." 