Faster test setup; new XJTAG release
XJTAG recently released XJTAG 4.1.3 with feature enhancements to XJDeveloper, XJAnalyser and XJInvestigator, along with an updated XJEase library – version 194. […]
Octal SPI NOR Flash Support Now Available in XJTAG
With the release of XJEase Library build 192 we included a notable update to the SPI NOR Flash test files: support for Octal SPI NOR Flash devices[1], also known as OSPI or OPI. Octal SPI NOR Flash is a variant of SPI NOR Flash that supports the use of an 8-bit bidirectional I/O bus for [...]
Errors in Intel Agilex BSDL files
We have recently seen Agilex BSDL files that cause XJDeveloper to emit errors looking like the image below. The cause of this is a mismatch of information. […]
XJEase SWD Enhancements
XJTAG 4.1 introduces enhancements to the ARM Serial Wire Debug (SWD) protocol to return protocol operation acknowledgement responses in XJEase. […]
Tips for setting up an XJLink-PF40 pin mapping
With the release of the XJLink-PF40 and XJTAG 4.1, setting up your pin mapping might have just got a bit more complicated. The XJLink-PF40 supports twice as many TAPs (8) and has twice as many I/O pins (40) as the XJLink2 so there can be more work involved in setup. Luckily, XJDeveloper 4.1 contains some [...]
Multi-sourcing Device Configurations
New in version 4.1, XJTAG has support for multi-sourcing test device configurations. This post will explain how to define multiple possible configurations for your test devices. A follow-up post will compare XJTAG’s Variants, Revisions and Multi-sourcing features and explain which is best to use in different scenarios. […]
XJEase Library Release 183 details
Here is a summary of the additions to the XJEase library made recently in library version 183. Note: Some files in this library require an XJTAG software version of at least 3.10.6. […]
Test Reset Sequence Editor Improvements
XJTAG 4.0 has significantly improved the user experience of creating and editing test reset sequences – the way in which JTAG devices are put into their JTAG mode. […]
Expanding Enhanced Signal Integrity Error Analysis
XJTAG 3.12 expanded the capability of the Signal Integrity Analysis in XJTAG tools, adding the ability to suggest certain causes of error. This post continues from the previous post on this subject, and describes further errors that XJTAG tries to identify. […]
Categorising devices: Ignored, Unfitted, Excluded or Uncategorised?
(This updates an older article due to the addition of the Excluded category in XJTAG 3.12) One of the questions we are commonly asked by new users, and also by users who have not used XJTAG for a while and are coming back to it, is about the differences between device categorisations in XJDeveloper. [...]