To meet the demand for its boundary scan test system, XJTAG, a supplier of IEEE Std. 1149.1 compliant boundary scan tools, has appointed eight new distributors, which will provide the company with representation in 21 countries across Europe, the Far East, North America, the Middle East and Australasia.

According to XJTAG, this is the first wave of distributor appointments planned for 2007 and this global roll-out will be supported by attendance at high profile trade shows across North America and Europe.

Simon Payne, CEO, XJTAG, said “Our intention is to make XJTAG the leading boundary scan supplier in the market. To achieve this, we are establishing a network of distributors to address the growing global demand among product developers and contract manufacturers for our advanced and sophisticated toolset.”

The XJTAG development system is a cost-effective solution for debugging, testing and servicing electronic printed circuits and systems throughout the product lifecycle. Boards populated with ball grid array (BGA) and chip scale devices, which cannot be tested by traditional methods such as flying probes, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes and X-ray systems, can be tested and analysed to pinpoint faults quickly and efficiently using XJTAG.

The new distributors include: Alfa-Tek (Australia and New Zealand), Antycip (France and Italy), Fuji-Setsu (Japan), gsh-systemelectronic (Austria and Germany), Joral Technologies (Canada and North-East USA), Phoenix Technologies (Israel), Quantum (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and the Ukraine), and Sprint Tronica (Portugal and Spain). For a full listing and contact details, please visit: www.xjtag.com/distributors.php.

The XJTAG distributors will be offering prospective clients the same complimentary board setup service and free 30-day evaluation of the XJTAG development system which has proved so popular with companies across the electronics industry to date.

Joao De Oliveira, VP business development, XJTAG, added: “Like our clients, the new distributors have been impressed by the power and ease-of-use of the XJTAG development system. It abstracts engineers from the complexity of the IEEE1149.1 standard and integrates with test executives such as LabVIEW, Visual Basic and other Windows-based custom applications.”

The XJTAG development system is an ‘out-of-the-box’ solution for debugging and testing complex electronic printed circuits and systems. The XJTAG system reduces the time and cost of board development and prototyping by allowing early test development, early design validation of CAD netlists, fast generation of highly functional tests and test re-use across circuits using the same devices.

XJTAG enables engineers to test a high proportion of the circuit (both boundary scan and cluster devices) including BGA and chip scale packages, such as SDRAMs, Ethernet controllers, video interfaces, Flash memories, field programmable gate arrays and microprocessors. XJTAG also enables In-System Programming of FPGAs, CPLDs (Complex Programmable Logic Devices) and Flash memories.

Pricing for the XJTAG system ranges from £3,500 (€5,075) to £9,900 (€14,355). www.xjtag.com