Test platform partnership

Agilent has formed a partnership with Aster to enable integration of that company's 'TestWay Coverage Analyst' across Agilent's printed circuit board assembly test platforms.

The analyst provides a push-button test coverage tool for estimating coverage (pre-test program development) and coverage measurement (post-test program measurement) using PCOLA-SOQ for the Medalist i3070 and i1000 platforms and various other test and inspection equipment on the user's production line, such as optical and X-ray inspection, boundary scan tester, MDA and functional test.

The tool is able to objectively calculate the theoretical coverage from the earliest stage in the product development cycle using CAD files and measure the real coverage from the developed test programs.

This allows users to best manage the overall test solution by making coverage comparisons and optimising the production test strategies.

Through this process, production test costs can be saved by shortening the production test planning time.