In the defense and aerospace industry, reliability and availability are of great importance. And, as with many industry segments that are more commercial, fast turn-around on JTAG test development and generation is just as critical to keeping projects on schedule. Mercury Computer Systems faced complex board-level designs that required the utmost in product reliability. The difficulties faced by Raytheon/ODS had an added logistical element to them. JTAG test portability was a concern because designs and prototypes were developed and built in one location while assembly and manufacturing took place in another. Another Defense Contractor found that in many cases it could avoid long and drawn out functional test processes by combining ScanWorks’ boundary scan test capabilities with flying probe test, streamlining the overall JTAG test process considerably and bringing projects in on time.
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ASSET Helps Mercury Implement JTAG Test With Boundary Scan. "ASSET speeds up the isolation of interconnect faults, and that saves a lot time." 
See how ASSET helped Raytheon and ODS reuse their tests as they moved from development to manufacturing. "With ASSET, we were able to develop one of our JTAG tests in two weeks. We were amazed how quickly boundary scan test development went," said Greg Knight of Raytheon. Ron Romero of Essential/ODS attests, "We were able to start testing the system via JTAG right away because we didn't have to generate tests from scratch. We just re-used Raytheon's boundary scan tests."