Users like Alcatel appreciate the
ease-of-use features in the ScanWorks user interface
(UI), but the consistency of a standard test executive
for the entire organization holds additional value as
well.
“We really liked the ScanWorks
user interface, but for the sake of consistency we wanted
all of our users to have the same interface for test,
and that is TestStand,” said Milos Obradovic,
test design engineer at Alcatel, a leading equipment
provider to the telecommunications industry. “All
of our test operations, such as functional test, system
test and others use TestStand. We’ve been able
to integrate ScanWorks into TestStand and our overall
experience with ScanWorks has been very good.”
ScanWorksAPI includes a suite of functions
developed specifically to NI’s VI specification.
These VIs provide an infrastructure so that ScanWorks
can be immediately integrated into an operator interface
that was developed with one of NI’s VI-compatible
tool sets. Technicians then launch ScanWorks-generated
boundary scan tests from the test executive with which
they are familiar. ScanWorksAPI’s suite of VIs
eliminates the need to program basic functions such
as the connection to the ScanWorks environment, the
loading of ScanWorks projects, the execution of JTAG
test actions or sequences, error handling and others.
“In many cases, boundary scan
tests have been developed by a design engineer to verify
the design of a product during development. For the
sake of consistency and efficiency, the manufacturing
operation may want to deploy these same JTAG tests under
a test executive that was developed with a tool like
TestStand or LabVIEW,” said Dave Bonnett, technical
product manager for ASSET. “ScanWorksAPI accomplishes
this with very little effort. And once the tests have
been integrated, the technicians or test operators who
are applying them from the test executive don’t
have to know anything about boundary scan. It’s
just another test for them to run from the executive.”
ScanWorksAPI is included as a feature
on all ScanWorks development stations. Tests created
with ScanWorksAPI can be run on any ScanWorks Manufacturing
Station.
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