RICHARDSON, TX – Asset InterTech has partnered with Flextronics to accelerate the adoption of IEEE P1687 Internal JTAG (IJTAG).

The Flextronics Center of Excellence in Austin will collaborate with Asset on the development of tools supporting the standard for Asset’s ScanWorks platform for embedded instruments.

The firms also will undertake joint marketing activities on the lifecycle value of deploying validation and test strategies based on the standard. They both have plans to conduct seminars, author joint white papers, present technical papers on IJTAG technology, and compile application notes. 

Once ratified next year, the standard will specify an open architecture and interfacing mechanisms for instrumentation embedded into semiconductor chips, simplifying the use of these embedded instruments to validate, test and debug chips, circuit boards and systems.

It will enable efficient use of embedded instruments throughout a product’s lifecycle, including circuit board validation during design, board test in manufacturing, and maintenance diagnostics in the field.

LAGUNA, PHILLIPPINES – IMI and its subsidiary Speedy-Tech Electronics have obtained in a US patent describing a self-coupled driver used in dual-switch forward power converter.

A dual-switch forward power converter, and a method of operating the same, employs a self-coupled driver to achieve higher efficiency, lower part count and component cost.

The transformer has two serially connected primary windings, with the first winding connected to a first switching transistor, which is biased by a pulse controller; the second winding couples the voltage across the first winding to bias the second switching transistor.

The circuit on the primary side of the transformer comprises means of dissipating magnetization current, and the circuit on the secondary side comprises a rectifier and a low-pass filter.

The US Patent no. is 7787265.

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