“Kozio has worked closely with TI for over two years to develop a standard, supported validation solution for their OMAP™ technology,” stated Clint Ostrander, President & CEO, Kozio, Inc.  “We are happy to be extending that support to the BeagleBoard community, providing them unmatched design verification and hardware validation.”

Users can browse and run Kozio’s library of tests through the click of a mouse. Devices can be programmed easily and quickly, including NOR and NAND flash memories, and SD cards. Users can read and write memory, peek and poke hardware registers, control GPIO lines, access I2C devices, and configure power resources. Custom commands can be scripted using any text editor. These scripts can perform complex flow control, such as looping and conditional branching using the programming constructs available through the Kozio scripting language.

About Kozio Technology

In-System Diagnostics (ISD) is a powerful and proven new technology for comprehensive verification and validation of electronic products. Unlike other verification and validation tools, it runs on actual hardware and replaces customized test procedures with a standardized extensible solution that significantly accelerates hardware test time. The core of ISD consists of an embedded binary, plus interpreter, that isolates and functionally evaluates device performance at-speed, against engineering design specifications, and over an extended operating range. It installs on bare silicon, is not an OS, and verifies hardware designs without scheduler interrupts or other OS-induced perturbations that may influence hardware performance and/or obscure the source of faults. 

Availability

Kozio’s kDiagnostics 30-day free trial for the BeagleBoard, based on OMAP3530 processor featuring ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor support, is immediately available. A 30-day trial for the BeagleBoard-xM will be available in October 2010.