Intellitech announces support and technology centre in Bangalore
The facility provides IEEE 1149.1 based test development services and support for Intellitech's Eclipse 1149.x test family of products. Besides local support for Intellitech's India and area customer base, the Bangalore centre is providing modeling support for the Intellitech Eclipse tools by adding pre-engineered DDR and Flash memory models for boundary-scan based tests and device programming.
The models enable customer access to automated memory test generation and FLASH programming for the large number of new memory devices that are introduced each year. Intellitech's Bangalore centre also provides low cost TPD (Test Program Development) through special Indian government licenses that allow import and export of PCBs from North America and Europe without incurring duty fees.
Intellitech's Bangalore office is able to provide Design-for-Test services early on during the PCB design phase working with customers to make sure they get maximum fault coverage including JTAG at-speed capability if they desire. This is followed by development of boundary-scan tests and fixturing, and finalizing the tests on a customer supplied PCB when it becomes available. The PCB and the test program can be returned in a matter of a few weeks at a cost that is roughly 30% of typical North American only based test development. Alternatively when customer PCBs are not readily available, final test program debug can be done remotely or at the customer's site. Customers get the benefit of off-shore outsourcing but still deal with Intellitech locally.
"Intellitech India Pvt. Ltd. has been incorporated in India for about 18 months now - we wanted to have solid procedures and staff in place prior to making any public announcements" said CJ Clark, President & CEO, Intellitech Corp. "Our group in India has quietly delivered several Test Program Development projects and customers are pleased with the results and the lower costs. India continues to provide top technical talent that we are leveraging to provide customers with low cost 1149.1 test tools and test programs. We will have in place roughly twelve engineers at our Bangalore location by the end of the year."
Clark continued."The flow from Design to Test is still an imperfect process, even if you pay a premium for the most automated boundary-scan tool, there are still many manual efforts that are needed to get a complete test", said Selvan Viswanathan, Director of Engineering.
He added, "Even the best of tools will not interpret designers pop-depop intentions, analyze at-speed DFT issues, solve netlist problems or handle non-compliant 1149.1 components correctly. That's the reality and it can use up valuable customer engineering resources to manage and debug these problems in-house. Test development and debug still requires engineering face time."
Selvan continued, "Intellitech has created a good balance between tool automation and low cost outsourced test program development that gets customers up and running with comprehensive tests with the least amount of hassle. By focusing on providing a complete solution from design to field, we ensure that our customers have success with IEEE 1149.1 test and FPGA configuration."
