Product Details
JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) is an industry-standard interface primarily used for design verification and post-manufacturing testing of semiconductor ICs and printed circuit boards (PCBs). It enables boundary-scan testing, debugging, and programming of devices, making it essential for hardware validation and troubleshooting.
As part of product validation, it’s important to validate the product’s conformance against the protocol specification to ensure interoperability of the IC. As the complexity of the protocol and ICs increases, the validation time of the protocol interfaces also increases, which in turn reduces the RTM. Performing the protocol conformance testing traditionally needs a lot of time and effort.
Soliton’s JTAG Receiver Protocol Validation Tool is an out-of-the-box validation tool using NI’s PXI Platform, which helps validate device compliance with timing and electrical specifications of the JTAG protocol. The tool can also validate the device's tolerance and provide a comprehensive set of reports. Users have claimed that the tool has brought down the test time/ validation time from a few days to a few hours.
Peek and Poke GUI for interactive debug of the JTAG interface. This helps to exercise and debug the JTAG communication manually. User can configure any allowed timing/voltage parameters to debug the transactions.
Technical Documentation
Soliton’s JTAG Receiver Validation Suite is an off the shelf validation tool using NI’s PXI Platform, which helps to validate the devices’ compliance with timing and electrical specifications of the JTAG protocol. It contains the below components.
NI PXIe 657x – Digital Pattern Generation Card with the PXIe Chassis setup
Oscilloscope – For performing voltage measurements
Soliton JTAG Receiver Validation Suite Software compatible with Windows OS (Win 10)
Soliton Interposer Board
Hardware
Soliton’s JTAG Receiver Validation suite is based on the NI – PXI Platform and the below NI part configuration lists the hardware required to perform the validation
Support & Training
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*Please note that this product is in the alpha stage.
User Persona
Design Engineers, Test Engineers, Post Silicon Validation Engineers, Engineering Managers, Validation Managers, Lab Managers, etc. from the Semiconductor Industry
Typical User Base for JTAG Receiver Validation Suite
- Post Silicon validation of Chips with JTAG interface
- Semiconductor Chip Manufacturers making JTAG Devices
- Product Manufactures making products with JTAG interface