Larger systems today, like telephone and optical switches, are usually based on a multi-board architecture where a set of printed-circuit boards are connected to a back-plane board.
These systems are also equipped with Boundary-Scan to enable testing, however, the back-plane in a multi-board system has a limited wiring capability, which makes the additional back-plane Boundary-Scan wiring highly costly. The problem is to access the Boundary-Scan enabled boards with the Boundary-Scan controller located at a central board. In this MSc.
This project we propose an approach suitable for the Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture (ATCA) standard where we make use of the existing Intelligent Platform Management Bus (IPMB) and expands its protocol for application of Boundary-Scan tests. We have also defined a command set as well as a test data format for storing embedded test data on the boards to support the remote execution of Boundary-Scan tests. For validation of the proposed approach we have developed demonstrator.
Source: Linköping University
Author: Bäckström, David