Electronic Design

Reducing the Cost of Test With Boundary Scan

Despite its standardization as IEEE 1149.1 in 1990 and wide use in the industry, many test engineers and developers still do not fully understand the benefits of boundary scan test. The misconceptions ...
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Embedded instrumentation and boundary scan

Since its ratification in the early 1990s, the IEEE 1149.1 Boundary Scan (JTAG) specification has shown that a well-thought-out standard can be resilient, adaptive, and quite useful in applications ...
Electronic Design

Working in a Friendly Boundary Scan Environment

Still using the same old test tools? New boundary scan software can improve your efficiency. Boundary scan PCB testing has been made easier by the new ProVision software application from JTAG ...
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PXI extends reach of boundary scan

Fig. 1 JTAG boundary-scan outfits each pin of a digital device with test registers that can stimulate or record I/O data. Boundary-scan technology arose to simplify the testing of connections on ...