XJTAG Blog

From version 2.6.2 onwards XJEase supports the printing of device, pin and net links which launch and get highlighted in Layout Viewer from XJRunner and XJDeveloper (provided there is an ODB++ netlist available for the board). Read the rest of this entry »

The Safe bitstream gets mentioned occasionally in our documentation and warning/error messages and this blog post attempts to shed some light on what it is and what it’s used for. Read the rest of this entry »

We see a lot of logic components used on boards that come through our office. Most often we see buffers, bus transceivers and devices of that nature, but also plenty of the usual discrete logic chips – simple gates, decoders, encoders etc. Read the rest of this entry »

A frequent question from customers is, “Why is my new XJEase test function not listed when I create an XJRunner test?”

XJEase Functions

For a function to be eligible to be made available to XJRunner it must be in the main project (.xje) file or a device file, or in a code file specified either in the main project (in the Circuit Code Files Screen) or from within a test device file (in the Test Device Files Screen).
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This series of posts covers how you can integrate XJTAG into your overall test system. This entry focuses on executing programs from within XJEase.

The XJEase keyword SYSTEM is used to execute a system command or program. Read the rest of this entry »

A customer recently asked how to read some input from the user in XJEase. The next major release of XJTAG (probably numbered 2.4) will contain a new XJEase function INPUTBOX that makes doing this much simpler. In the meantime, I thought I might outline some code that accomplishes the same thing in the current version.

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In XJEASE the SET statement is the command to access pins via a JTAG device. XJEase works out via the BSDL files and netlist how to access a pin on a non JTAG device from a JTAG device.

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