Learn the IEEE 1149.1 Boundary Scan Standard
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INTRODUCTION
On this page, you will find a training software that demonstrates main principles of testing printed circuit boards (PCB) using Boundary Scan test (BST) methodology. The software allows the user to experiment with built-in collection of components (ICs) and example boards, create own examples and save them for a later usage. To facilitate better understanding of the BS standard the trainig software has the following main working modes:
- Design/Editing of the BS structures inside the target chip using the BSDL language (find large collection of BSDL files at www.BSDL.info)
- Design/Description of the target board that consists of several chips
- Simulation of work of the TAP controller, scan register and other BS registers
- Insertion and diagnosis of interconnection faults
SHORT INTRO
Boundary-Scan test is a method for structural testing of printed circuit boards. The BST standard interface was designed for implementing many tasks like it is shown in the figure below.
Figure 1. Boundary-Scan Usage
The standard BS device includes the following three components:
- A serial test access port (TAP)
- A group of registers: boundary-scan register, instruction register (IR) and bypass register. Test data loads to registers through Test Data Input port (TDI) and comes out from Test Data Output port (TDO).
- A TAP controller, a 16-state finite state machine (Fig. 2) which has three main functions:
1. Loading the instructions in the IR;
2. Providing control signal to load and shift the test data into TDI and out of TDO;
3. Performing some test actions, such as capture, shift, and update test data.The boundary scan architecture is shown in Figure 3.
APPLET DOCUMENTATION
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- A. Jutman, A. Sudnitson, R. Ubar, “Web-Based Training System for Teaching Principles of Boundary Scan Technique”, in Proc. 14th EAEEIE Conference on Innovation in Education for Electrical and Information Engineering, Gdansk, Poland, June 16-18, 2003
- A. Jutman, A. Sudnitson, R. Ubar, “Web-based Applet for Teaching Boundary Scan Standard IEEE 1149.1” in Proc. of 10th International Conference on Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES'03), Lodz, Poland, June 26-28, 2003, pp. 584-589
- A. Jutman, A. Sudnitson, R. Ubar, “Digital Design Learning System Based on Java Applets”, in Proc. 4th Annual Conference of the LTSN Centre for Information and Computer Sciences, NUI Galway, Ireland, August 26-28, 2003, pp.183-187
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Last update: 22 February, 2007
