XJTAG Blog2025-04-14T12:20:47+01:00

Welcome to the XJTAG support blog

This is your go-to space for tips, insights, and updates straight from the XJTAG development and support team. We’re here to help you get the most out of your XJTAG system by sharing our knowledge, experience, and best practices. You’ll find posts highlighting particular features of the different software packages that make up the XJTAG development system or aspects of the XJEase language.

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New board to protect against current spikes

One potential cause of damage to an XJLink2 JTAG controller is transient current spikes caused when a board is first powered on and the decoupling capacitors are charged. We’ve talked about this issue on the blog before and shown that, unfortunately, even a very brief spike in current can cause damage to the controller. Introducing the XJTAG Termination Protection Board [...]

By |April 9th, 2025|Categories: Board Design, Electronics Tips, Releases|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

DDR5 support in XJTAG

We are starting to see an increased number of questions about support for DDR5 DIMMs and SDRAM devices, which are rapidly becoming mainstream. Support for DDR5 devices will be added to the XJEase Library in the near future, but in the meantime XJTAG can now make DDR5 models available on request to customers with a maintenance agreement. -

By |March 10th, 2025|Categories: Board Design, Support, XJEase|Tags: , , |0 Comments

XJPack files in JTAG Chain Debugger

XJTAG 4.0 introduced Optimised Scans, providing more options for configuring JTAG chains and improving scan speeds. To assist debugging any problems getting chains to run when deploying projects using these new features into a production environment, JTAG Chain debugger has also been given an update: if run in a system with an XJRunner licence, the JTAG Chain Debugger can now [...]

By |September 9th, 2024|Categories: JTAG Chain Debugger, Releases|Tags: , , |0 Comments
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