And to keep start-up costs down, to connect to the board, JTAG Live is compatible with the popular JTAG programming cables from Altera and Xilinx, as well as with the two-port USB Explorer from JTAG Technologies.
Buzz provides the ability to check quickly (direct and indirect) connections between devices supporting boundary-scan while Clip offers ways to verify cluster logic using vector-based cluster tests; and Script enables users to adopt a functional, device-oriented test approach to take control of a design through on-board JTAG/boundary-scan compliant devices.
Buzz is available free of charge from the JTAG Live website. Clip and Script are also available for download, but for a nominal charge.
JTAG Technologies will also demonstrate – JTAG ProVisionT – Now With Added ‘Buzz’
Class leading boundary-scan tool adds simple continuity test feature
We will also demonstrate an interim update to the renowned ProVision boundary-scan development tools-suite. Service Pack One for CD release 15 (CD15-SP1) is now available for download for licensed users with a current support contract and includes the new free continuity test module ‘Buzz’.
JTAG ProVision first released in 2006 uses a unique project database structure, automatically analysing the boundary-scan and non-boundary-scan elements of a design to create rapidly a full set of tests and in-system programming applications. The new Buzz module allows a user, with minimal design information, to quickly check the continuity between two or more pins. Using an intuitive user interface the user can quickly drag and drop pins into a continuity test panel within the user interface and ‘Buzz-out’ a connection as you might traditionally do with a DMM. A new ‘Watch’ feature uses the JTAG SAMPLE instruction to monitor asynchronously the activity of a selected pin without disturbing the operation of the UUT.
JTAG ProVision has dramatically changed the way users work with boundary-scan since its launch said Peter van den Eijnden, managing director of JTAG Technologies. Adding the Buzz feature gives users a very quick method to check out up to 10 pin to pin connections in one hit without the hurdles that are sometimes encountered when importing design data.