JTAG Technologies JTAGLive Studio boundary-scan suite

JTAGLive Studio is a package of JTAG/boundary-scan tools that enable designers and manufacturing test engineers to develop complete test and programming applications. The claimed benefits offered by the JTAG Technology for debugging, testing and in-system programming are not limited to complex designs with many JTAG devices.

Designs with only a few, even just one or two, JTAG devices can also benefit from this technology during all stages of the life cycle.

JTAGLive Studio is a test and device-programming toolset that claims to lower the cost of entry for test and hardware engineers, while still offering the many traditional benefits of JTAG/boundary-scan alongside newer technologies like processor-controlled test.

JTAGLive Studio works with or without design netlist data and can be used to test interconnects (from individual nets to an entire board), logic clusters, memories and more. Studio also includes device programming features that support JAM/STAPL and SVF data formats for CPLD and [FPGA] configuration PROM programming. It can be further used to program flash and serial PROMs. A dedicated, USB-powered, TAP interface/controller with programmable thresholds is also supplied as part of the Studio system.

Many of the cluster test and memory programming features are provided through high-level, easy-to-use Python language JTAG script routines, called through Studio’s embedded API. Moreover, Python power can again be used to construct stand-alone test sequences in conjunction with third-party, open source libraries such as the tkinter graphics set.