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Seodu Inchip to Provide Ricreations Inc.'s Universal Scan JTAG Tool in Korea

Posted on: Friday, 5 December 2003, 06:00 CST

SEOUL, Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 5, 2003--Seodu Inchip announced it is now offering the Universal Scan JTAG debug tool to customers in Korea. Universal Scan provides designers and technicians with a unique new way to debug prototype circuit cards -- especially those with BGAs -- that is quick, easy and inexpensive via the JTAG port on their devices. This in turn means quicker debug cycles and faster time to market for products.

Universal Scan, from Ricreations Inc., lets the user virtually "see" the operation of signals under a BGA (or any other JTAG-enabled package) in real-time on a PC screen. The tool also allows the user to manually force pins to a known state to do simple continuity testing.

"Universal Scan provides SEODU INCHIP customers tremendous access to circuit card signals without the need for test fixture development or any of the tedious time consuming tasks normally associated with test development. This is especially important on initial prototypes where the design is not stable and there are no test fixtures yet," said Bu Il "Billy" Jeon of SEODU INCHIP. "And since Universal Scan is not vendor specific - it works on any part with a JTAG interface - it can be used on any FPGA, PLD, Microprocessor, DSP, ASIC, etc."

The team at Ricreations Inc. has seen tremendous acceptance of this new debug technique and is thrilled to have SEODU INCHIP help introduce the technology to the Korean design community. "Boundary Scan has been around for over 10 years and while there are many tools that take advantage of it in manufacturing test, there aren't any that provide simple, quick and inexpensive access to the JTAG data to help engineers and technicians debug initial prototype circuits -- until now," said Rick Folea, Chief Technical Officer at Ricreations Inc.

Pricing and Availability

Contact your local SEODU INCHIP distributor for pricing and availability, or www.UniversalScan.com.

About Ricreations Inc.

Ricreations is the world's first manufacturer and producer of engineering tools that take the high price and long learning curve out of boundary scan technology. These tools provide a simple intuitive interface that hides the messy details of performing boundary scan testing from the user and requires no test executives, no test vectors and no component libraries to maintain. The tools are so simple to use that users are up and running in minutes with no previous boundary scan experience at all. Product description and features can be seen at www.UniversalScan.com.

About SEODU INCHIP Inc.

The PLD Business Unit of SEODU INCHIP is an authorized Korea distributor of Xilinx Inc., and has been providing CPLD/FPGA chips, design software and various kinds of IP cores to the Korean market. Current target market includes all the applications of electronics and information telecommunication, which cover communications, multi-medias, networks, PDA Phone, games, PC peripherals, security devices, factory automation equipments, etc. The major customers are approximately 500 companies including Korea Telecom, Sewon Telecom, Hynix, Fuji-Xerox, Lotte Canon, DI, 3R, etc.

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