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What is "Boundary scan"?

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Hi,

I'm a novice to VHDL & CPLD. I keep reading this exprission.
Can anybody tell me where to find technical infos about "Boundary Scan" ?

Thanks in advance.
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All specification has been defined in IEEE 1149.1 which defined the Boundary Scan and its provision on chip. The boundary scan is a on-board testing provision, refer to the specification for more details.

Copy of specification can be found in MCU fileman under specifications.

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Good introduction to Boundary scan
 

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Other document about Boundary scan:
h**p://hem.hj.se/~mabe/Master_2002/SysVerif_Test/Bound_Scan.pdf
 

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For people that are too lazy to RTFM.

Boundary scan was conceived to allow for testing the interconnect between components on a board. An ASIC with boundary scan has an addtional register in each of the IO pads and all of the IO pads are connected to their neighbors to form a ring. This way a bit pattern can be shifted in to drive an output to a desired state and an input can be latched. The latched input values are then shifted out to be read by the board tester.

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By referring to Synopsys's documents (SOLD) you can find very good information on this.
 

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This is the boundary scan user guide!

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This is the boundary scan user guide and may help you!
 

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Thomson said:
This is the boundary scan user guide!

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This is the boundary scan user guide and may help you!

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Take a look at this.. This is boundary scan for XILINX FPGAs

h**p://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_tt_gettingstarted.jsp?sProduct=JTAG&iLanguageID=1

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