Latest software release: CD15

Maintaining our steady pace of innovation and value for our customers, CD15 is now available with valuable new capabilities to users, among them:
• JTAG Functional Test, a new way to develop cluster tests (that is, tests of non-boundary-scan portions of the board). Unlike the traditional vector-based approach, JFT is language-based, enabling the test engineer to write a program using the popular open-source Python language to create a test for even highly complex sequential clusters.
• ProVision’s device modeling capability continues to expand. With CD15, the library now contains over 5.300 models covering almost 33,000 device types. And if you need to edit BSDL’s, you can now do so within ProVision.
• Developing in-system programming apps for NAND flash and SPROM (I2C and SPI) has been greatly simplified with new automatic generators within ProVision. More information on proVision.

DataBlaster family now includes PCI Express

Another high-performance boundary-scan controller is now available, the JT 37x7 / PCIe. The new unit offers support for the increasingly popular PCI Express slot format found extensively in today’s PCs. The PCIe bus is a high-speed serial replacement of the older parallel PCI bus. As with all other DataBlasters, three scalable versions are available:
• JT 3707 / PCIe for high-speed 40MHz test test and in-system PLD programming
• JT 3717 / PCIe and JT 3727 / PCIe for flash ISP and test and PLD programming.

Clue Corner

Easily develop applications for your fully-assembled systems with JTAG ProVision

From the beginning, JTAG ProVision was architected to support multi-board systems without cumbersome work-arounds such as netlist merging. Using standard features in ProVision, you can easily develop applications for an entire system or combination of boards within a system, while still working from a single project.

When creating your project, simply import individual netlists for each board in the system. As you develop each boundary-scan application, select the board or boards that you would like to include. Then, you can quickly define the board-to-board connections using the graphical Board Connection Editor plug-in, a standard feature within ProVision.

Multi-board designs usually use commercially available bridging or linking devices to support the system-level boundary-scan infrastructure. No problem! Using the visual TAP Connection Editor, also a standard feature within ProVision, all you have to do is select the system-level device used in your design and assign the chains of the individual boards to their corresponding connections on the device. Configuring the device is handled automatically with embedded support for all currently available devices.

Latest overview supported EDA platforms extractors for Visualizer

We continue to expand the number of EDA systems supported on the JTAG Visualizer tool. Visualizer gives designers and test engineers a schematic and layout view of the board, helping to quickly grasp boundary-scan results and reduce hard-copy documentation. We now have extractors for the following EDA systems: Cadence, Innoveda, Mentor, and Zuken.
 

Scan-configurable interface logic (SCIL) 

Programmability is a key feature of many hardware modules in our product lineup:

• JT 2111 / MPV, desktop DIOS
• JT 2122 / MPV, DIMM DIOS
• JT 2121 / MPV, the TAP Pod provided with the RMI controller
• JT 2149 / MPV, TAP Pod for use with QuadPOD with built-in DIOS

All of these modules can be loaded with advanced functionality for testing protocol simulators, bus simulators, and other system blocks. Several SCIL functions are already available from the factory to support access to Freescale and NXP microcontrollers. Contact the factory for specifics on additional SCIL functionality.