[Pesco] won one of Dangerous Prototypes’ PCB giveaways a few months ago. He opted for a CPLD breakout board. He just needed to put in a parts order and populate the components himself. But then what?

If not, it might be because you haven’t mastered the basics of JTAG and learned how to dump, or snarf, the firmware of an embedded device. This JTAG primer will get you up to snuff on snarfing, and ...

To help users of its 65-nm Virtex 5 FGPAs get a better handle on on-chip thermal- and power-management issues, Xilinx this week will release its System Monitor tool, EDN has learned. Users will be ...

JTAG Technologies at Productronica highlighted a new USB version of its JT 3705 Explorer. (The original parallel-port Explorer was one of the industry’s first commercially-available boundary-scan ...