Kozio Introduces 30-Day Free Trial of kDiagnostics for Users of Blaze™ Mobile Development Platform

LONGMONT, Colo., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Kozio, Inc. (www.kozio.com), the leading provider of In-System Diagnostics, today announced that it has made available a 30-day free trial of its kDiagnostics® Design Suite for the Blaze™ Mobile Development Platform (MDP). This free trial is available now, and can be downloaded directly from the Kozio website (http://www.kozio.com/eval).  

The kDiagnostics Design Suite gives users the power to explore and understand the Blaze MDP, verify that it is performing properly and access and control its low-level hardware and high-level functionality. This full validation solution is a standard-supported product, resulting from more than a year of development efforts around the Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) OMAP™ 4 platform based Blaze MDP.

"We are pleased to offer users of the Blaze MDP a comprehensive verification test suite and platform guide that allows them to validate and explore the full potential of the hardware," said Clint Ostrander, President and CEO, Kozio, Inc. "We have supported TI's OMAP processors from silicon wakeup through evaluation modules, and are happy to be extending this support to Blaze MDP users." 

Easy to Use

The Kozio kDiagnostics Design Suite allows users to run powerful diagnostic tests on the Blaze MDP hardware using an intuitive graphical user interface. With the Kozio ValidationAssistant™ GUI, Users can easily browse and run Kozio's library of diagnostic tests with simple mouse clicks. Run color bar tests on LCD panels, send images to the DLP® Pico projector and HDMI port, view live video from each of the cameras, play sine tones out of the stereo speakers, record from the digital microphones – all with the click of a mouse. As the tests run, they display ongoing status messages, progress bar indicators, interactive dialogues, and clear pass/fail results, all of which can be captured to a log file for later analysis. Users can access online help for all commands and tests with a right-click of the mouse.

ValidationAssistant also gives power users the freedom to directly access Blaze MDP hardware in real-time. For instance, users can read and write memory, peek and poke hardware registers, control GPIO lines, access I2C devices, configure power resources, and much, much, more by simply clicking on commands and filling in dialogs. Users can also create scripts of custom commands using any text editor, and use ValidationAssistant to download and run these scripts immediately. These scripts can perform complex control flow such as looping and conditional branching using the rich programming constructs available through the Kozio kScript language.

ValidationAssistant provides a powerful interface for programming devices on board, including NOR and NAND flash memories, and SD cards. Users can select a file, and program it where they want it.

ValidationAssistant communicates over a USB cable with the kDiagnostics embedded software that runs directly on the Blaze MDP hardware. The Blaze MDP can boot into the kDiagnostics software directly from a Secure Digital (SD) card—format and activate the SD card, copy the kDiagnostics software onto the card, insert the card into the Blaze MDP, and power up the system. Kozio provides detailed instructions for this process to help boot kDiagnostics quickly and easily.

Kozio Software Solutions

Kozio provides fully-integrated and pre-configured software solutions for design validation and board bring-up, binary image downloading, in-system programming, automated board testing, and in-field power-on self-test. No hardware modifications or additional test equipment are required to run full diagnostics.

Blaze™ Mobile Development Platform (MDP)

The Blaze™ mobile development platform (MDP) is the first in a family of OMAP 4 platform-based development tools. It pairs TI's OMAP 4 platform with key peripherals to provide mobile innovators with a complete system solution that eases the development process and transforms designs into real-life applications. The Blaze MDP is designed to give developers access to the right mobile system components so they can innovate and create whenever an idea strikes.

Availability

Kozio's kDiagnostics with ARM® Cortex™-A9 processor support is immediately available.

About Kozio, Inc.

Founded in 2003, Kozio provides packaged solutions for hardware validation and circuit board test to leading edge customers across the globe.  Our tools are constructed from a library of over a million lines of proven diagnostic code that has been run thousands of times, on hundreds of designs throughout the whole product life cycle. Comprehensive hardware design validations are performed in minutes, not weeks, accelerating time-to-market with reduced risk and better allocation of engineering resources.  Whether your application is in Engineering, Manufacturing, or In-Field test, Kozio is the trusted leader in In-System Diagnostics and your fastest path to reliable hardware.

Kozio, the Kozio logo and kDiagnostics are registered trademarks of Kozio, Inc.  kPOST, ValidationAssistant, SequenceRunner, and SequenceReporter are trademarks of Kozio, Inc. All other trademarks and products are the property of their respective owners.

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