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Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) is the usual name used for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1149.1 standard entitled Standard Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture for test access ports used for testing printed circuit boards using boundary scan.

JTAG was an industry group formed in 1985 to develop a method to test populated circuit boards after manufacture. At the time, multi-layer boards and non-lead-frame ICs were becoming standard and making connections between ICs not available to probes. The majority of manufacturing and field faults in circuit boards were due to solder joints on the boards, imperfections in board connections, or the bonds and bond wires from IC pads to pin lead frames. JTAG was meant to provide a pins-out view from one IC pad to another so all these faults could be discovered. The industry standard finally became an IEEE standard in 1990 as IEEE Std. 1149.1-1990 after many years of initial use. That same year Intel released the first Central processing unit with JTAG: the 80486 which led to quicker industry adoption by all manufacturers. In 1994, a supplement that contains a description of the boundary scan description language (BSDL) was added. Since then, this standard has been adopted by electronics companies all over the world. Boundary-scan is nowadays mostly synonymous with JTAG.

While designed for printed circuit boards, JTAG is nowadays primarily used for accessing sub-blocks of integrated circuits, and is also useful as a mechanism for debugging embedded systems, providing a convenient "back door" into the system. When used as a debugging tool, an in-circuit emulator - which in turn uses JTAG as the transport mechanism - enables a programmer to access an on-chip debug module which is integrated into the Central processing unit, via the JTAG interface. The debug module enables the programmer to debug the software of an embedded system.

In most ICs today, all internal registers are on one of many scan chains. This allows all combinational logic to be tested completely even while an IC is in the circuit card and possibly while in a functioning system. When combined with built-in self-test (BIST), the JTAG scan chain enables a low overhead, completely embedded solution to testing an IC for certain static faults (shorts, opens, and logic errors). The scan chain mechanism does not generally help diagnose or test for timing, temperature or other dynamic operational errors that may occur.

Electrical characteristics A JTAG interface is a special four/five-pin interface added to a chip, designed so that multiple chips on a board can have their JTAG lines daisy-chained together, and a test probe need only connect to a single "JTAG port" to have access to all chips on a circuit board. The connector pins are

TDI (Test Data In)

TDO (Test Data Out)

TCK (Test Clock)

TMS (Test Mode Select)

TRST (Test Reset) optional.

Test reset signal is not shown in the image.

Since only one data line is available, the protocol is necessarily Serial communications like Serial Peripheral Interface. The clock input is at the TCK pin. Configuration is performed by manipulating a state machine one bit at a time through a TMS pin. One bit of data is transferred in and out per TCK clock pulse at the TDI and TDO pins, respectively. Different instruction modes can be loaded to read the chip ID, sample input pins, drive (or float) output pins, manipulate chip functions, or bypass (pipe TDI to TDO to logically shorten chains of multiple chips). The operating frequency of TCK varies depending on the chip, but it is typically 10-100 MHz (100-10 ns per bit).

When performing boundary scan on integrated circuits, the signals manipulated are between different functional blocks of the chip, rather than between different chips.

The TRST pin is an optional active-low reset to the test logic - usually asynchronous, but sometimes synchronous, depending on the chip. If the pin is not available, the test logic can be reset by clocking in a reset instruction synchronously.

Data presented to TDI must be valid for some chip-specific Setup time before and Hold time after the rising edge of TCK. TDO data is valid for some chip-specific time after the falling edge of TCK. This can be seen e.g. with the JTAG timing diagram of the DS4550 chip (http://pdfserv.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/DS4550.pdf).

Even though few consumer products provide an explicit JTAG port connector, the connections are very often available on the printed circuit board as a remnant from development prototype. When exploited, these connections often provide an excellent means for reverse engineering.

Test pins Devices communicate to the world via a set of input and output pins. By themselves, these pins provide limited visibility into the workings of the device. However, devices that support boundary scan contain a shift-register cell for each signal pin of the device. These registers are connected in a dedicated path around the device's boundary (hence the name). The path creates a virtual access capability that circumvents the normal inputs and provides direct control of the device and detailed visibility at its outputs.{{cite news | first = Rob | last = Oshana | url = http://www.embedded.com/story/OEG20021028S0049 | title = Introduction to JTAG | work = Embedded Systems Design | date = October 29, [ | accessdate = 2007-04-05 -->

During testing, I/O signals enter and leave the chip through the boundary-scan cells. The boundary-scan cells can be configured to support external testing for interconnection between chips or internal testing for logic within the chip.

To provide the boundary scan capability, IC vendors add additional logic to each of their devices, including scan registers for each of the signal pins, a dedicated scan path connecting these registers, four or five additional pins, and control circuitry. The overhead for this additional logic is minimal and generally well worth the price to have efficient testing at the board level.

Common extensions Manufacturer's extensions: Infineon, MIPS EJTAG, Freescale COP, ARM architecture ETM (Embedded Trace Macrocell), OnCE etc.

Widespread uses

A large proportion of high end embedded systems have a JTAG port .
The Peripheral Component Interconnect bus connector standard contains optional JTAG signals on pins 1-5 PCI Local Bus Technical Summary, 4.10 JTAG/Boundary Scan Pins; PCI-Express contains JTAG signals on pins 5-9 PCI-Express 16x Connector Pin Out. A special JTAG card can be used to reflash a corrupt BIOS.
Almost all FPGAs and CPLDs used today can be programmed via the JTAG port.

Client software The JTAG interface is accessed using some JTAG-enabled application.

Free software

Very cheap interface working with the CICLaMaB program
OpenCores JTAG module is an Semiconductor intellectual property core which can be used to provide JTAG in a design. It is part of the OpenCores project
The openwince project produce the JTAG Tools supporting a large set of inexpensive IEEE 1284 parallel printer port cables (the project has made no releases since 2003 but its CVS repository is quite active)
JTAG-ARM9 provides a JTAG access program for the ARM architecture processor.
JTAG for the LART aimed at the LART processor (link dead. Seems reborn on )
JTAG base layer is an attempt at creating a JTAG library
The uCLinux for Blackfin project have a JTAG-backend for the GNU Debugger and a JTAG Tools version specifically for Blackfin based on the openwince work
JTAG toolkit is a free software JTAG tool suite, including API library and several examples
OpenOCD is an GPL Open Source GDB Server that currently supports ARM7 and some ARM9 Targets
Boundary Scan Coach An interactive learning software for IEEE Std.1149.x
JTAG BSDL Validation Tool - Free BSDL Valiation Service