J-LINK REDUCES JTAG DEBUG PINCOUNT FROM 5 to 1! Pittsford, New York—Traditional JTAG boundary-scan testing normally takes up 5 valuable pins on an i.c., requires 5 resistors, and increases chip power.

Anyone who enjoys building electronic projects may find the new IDAP-Link debug JTag Probe created by I-SYST worth more investigation, as well as helpful building electronic projects. The small ...

Recently I started to evaluate a development kit that cost about $US 180. Taking the kit beyond a basic demonstration, though, required using a “JTAG” programming ...

Adafruit has announced the arrival of a new piece of kit to their online store in the form of the IBDAP – CMSIS-DAP JTAG/SWD Debug Adapter Kit, which is now available to purchase priced at $19.95. The ...

We don’t always JTAG, but when we do, we use a Black Magic Probe. It’s a completely open ARM-chip debugging powerhouse. If you program the small ARM chips and you don’t have a BMP, you need a BMP.

[Joe Grand] has come up with a tool which we think will be useful to anyone trying to hack a physical device: The JTAGulator. We touched on the JTAGulator briefly during our DEF CON coverage, but it ...

IEEE 1149.7 is a complementary superset of the widely adopted IEEE 1149.1 (JTAG) standard that has been in use for more than two decades. Although the new IEEE 1149.7 has not been finalized, its ...

As with many Linux-related topics, the issue of using debuggers to troubleshoot the Linux kernel is not only technical--it's political. Linux is being mostly developed on the x86 platform, which does ...

The PowerPC started out as a RISC challenger to the PC's XC86, developed by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. It lost that race, but it has become a major RISC for ICs, ASSPs, and cores. PowerPCs have a large ...

Intel responded to a claim about hackers gaining hardware-level access to PCs sporting its sixth- and seventh-generation processors. The claim was made during a presentation at the 33rd annual Chaos ...