Boundary scan has traditionally been difficult to promote as a product-design requirement. But boundary-scan success stories have percolated into the electronic-design community, and the availability ...

The cost of manufacturing printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs) has always been a concern for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and contract manufacturers (CM). This is one of the reasons why ...

Companies specializing in circuit board and system design-for-test (DFT) tools are pursuing a variety of strategies to serve test and debug applications based on innovations they announced over the ...

Despite its standardization as IEEE 1149.1 in 1990 and wide use in the industry, many test engineers and developers still do not fully understand the benefits of boundary scan test. The misconceptions ...