Boundary-scan powered design and repair debug tools for PCBs
The extension was conceived to allow even easier detection of short-circuit faults with the company’s base-level JTAGLive family. The tool allows users to find all the boundary-scan connections for two drivers simultaneously. If connections are missing, or if shorts occur between these two nets, those can easily be seen. The JTAGLive family capitalizes on the boundary-scan resources found on today’s high-end circuit boards. There is no need for a netlist since the tool uses just BSDL models of the compliant parts (usually freely available from IC vendors) to give the user access to all of the I/O pins for driving and sensing.
Users can define up to two boundary-scan chains and can quickly verify chain integrity through hardware adapters from Xilinx, Altera, JTAG Technologies and the dedicated JTAGLive controller/interface. As well as the new Buzz-plus option, the JTAGLive family includes additional extended modules ‘Clip’, which allows the engineer to create more customised logic cluster test patterns, and ‘Script’, a powerful command and control structure to manipulate and sense cluster I/Os using the popular Python language. Script well suited for functional-style, device-oriented tests such as testing mixed signal parts, operations that require user intervention, and looping test patterns to set up device registers.
99 free copies of Buzz-plus are available to existing Buzz users, who can apply via www.jtaglive.com/Products/Buzz.
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