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Kozio, Inc. Admitted to Prestigious Freescale Design Alliance
Kozio tools help speed time to market, reduce cost of test for Freescale customers
March 27, 2006, Longmont, CO. – Kozio, Inc., a leading provider of embedded software for system-level hardware testing, today announced it is a new corporate member of the Freescale Semiconductor Design Alliance Program. Kozio provides a comprehensive test package for custom hardware platforms with fast delivery times for supported processors, including Freescale's PowerQUICC II, PowerQUICC II Pro, and PowerQUICC III architectures, featuring the MPC82XX, MPC83XX and MPC85XX processors.
“We’re thrilled to be a part of the Freescale Design Alliance Program,” said Joseph Skazinski, president of Kozio. “It builds on our previous involvement in the Freescale Tools Alliance Program, and our commitment to support new and existing processor technology from Freescale.” The Design Alliance Program is a worldwide network of qualified developers working with embedded solutions. Kozio’s involvement with the new program will enable Freescale to better serve its customers.
The Freescale Design Alliance program is designed to create a dynamic community of design engineers and consultants to provide Freescale customers with resources to accelerate the time-to-market of their products. The directory of program members can be accessed at www.freescale.com.
Kozio provides electronic product designers and manufacturers with software customized to perform hardware testing on their processor board. This service includes the creation of software test algorithms providing comprehensive or near-comprehensive test coverage of various hardware components on a processor board. A detailed test-coverage document is delivered with the software.
“Kozio products and services have been an excellent value for Trusted Data, exceeding my expectations in quality and support. I always recommend kDiagnostics to my peers.”
- Mark Herbert, Sr. Director Engineering, Trusted Data Corp
Kozio software is offered in several variations, along with supporting services:
- Manufacturing Test Software – kManufacturing™
- In-Field Diagnostics – kField™
- Board Bring-up Debug and Test Diagnostics – kDiagnostics™
- Production-ready Power-On Self Test Software – kPOST™
In addition, Kozio offers a free evaluation kit of its kDiagnostics software for board bring-up debug and test available on many supported processor reference platforms from industry-leading semiconductor providers and product solutions companies.
About Kozio, Inc.
Kozio, Inc. is the leader in embedded test solutions for today’s electronic products. Kozio delivers turnkey software providing a comprehensive suite of hardware diagnostics used for debugging and testing custom boards implementing processors from AMCC, ARM, IBM, Intel, Freescale, TI or MIPS. Kozio’s clients build state-of-the-art products where successful use of the newest technologies with shortened development cycles requires them to constantly innovate to stay ahead of their competition. Kozio software improves their test methodologies and streamlines their development process with proven solutions for board bring-up diagnostics, manufacturing test, environmental test, power-on self-test, in-field diagnostics, and returns testing. By delivering thorough software diagnostics ahead of the hardware, Kozio reduces project schedule risk and development costs while increasing test coverage. Headquartered in Longmont, Colorado, Kozio products are available through a direct sales force and worldwide distributors. For more information, please visit www.kozio.com.
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Kozio, kDiagnostics, kManufacturing, kPOST, kField, and Flash-N-Run are registered trademarks of Kozio, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Contact: Joseph Skazinski, Kozio, Inc., (303) 776-1356, , or Brad Shannon, Shannon Marketing Communications, (970) 461-4906, brad@shannonmarcom.com. |
