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We believe that sharing our knowledge will help you get the most out of your XJTAG system. This is where our development and support team share their insights and experience. 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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User XJEase Libraries – part 1
A new feature in XJTAG 3.11 is the ability to create user-defined XJEase libraries containing your own XJEase device files and additional code files. Part 1 in this 2 part blog series will explain how to use the new XJEase Library Editor application to create user libraries. Part 2 will then explore how user libraries are used in XJDeveloper. […]
XJTAG version 3.11
A new major version of XJTAG – version 3.11 – is now available from our website for users who are in maintenance. […]
Background XJEase Compilation
A time-saving feature of XJTAG v3.10 is streamlined background compilation of projects, drastically reducing the startup time to run tests. […]
XJEase Global Variable Overrides
XJTAG 3.10 adds a control that allows the default values of XJEase global variables to be overridden. In XJDeveloper, clicking on ‘Options’ at the bottom of the test list on the Run Tests screen now includes a Set Global Variables tab: […]
Stuck-at testing on 1149.6 pins
One of the standard types of testing that is done in XJTAG’s Connection Test is to detect stuck-high and stuck-low faults (shorts to power/ground). Using the IEEE 1149.1 JTAG standard this can be done providing the net has full IN/OUT functionality – that is to say it can both drive output and read input at the same time. The test is implemented by driving the net high or low and then checking that the value read from the net changes to reflect the value driven. […]
Revisions – part 3
This blog article is the final part of the three part series detailing the new Revisions feature in XJDeveloper 3.10. This article looks under the hood at how the device matching algorithm works. […]