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. […]
The latest version of XJTAG, version 2.4, is now available to customers who are in maintenance. […]
XJTAG has moved office. Our office move is complete and all our details are now updated on the XJTAG website, but just to make sure everyone has picked up our new contact details, here they are. […]
XJlink2 comes with a detailed self test program. Accessed via the “Test…” button in XJLinkManager this enables you to run a diagnostic report on your XJlink2. […]
The new XJlink2 has a button and some LEDs, which aren’t found on most JTAG interface devices. These are simply there to make life a little simpler on a crowded workbench. Once you have a project open in XJRunner you can start testing by just pressing the button – this can be quicker than finding [...]
Solving common Connection Test problems There are several types of error found by Connection Test which regularly (and unsurprisingly) confuse users. This article tries to help out… […]
Understanding the connection test output When Connection Test finds an error on a board it tries to ascertain what the problem is. This may involve carrying out additional checks, to try to eliminate noise on a floating net or cross-talk as a cause of the behaviour. If the fault appears to be genuine then the [...]
Note: This post was published in 2009 and was therefore accurate in XJTAG version 2.2. An updated version of this post is available here and should be used with XJTAG version 3.x. […]