Jtag Technologies has added to its ProVision suite of boundary-scan development tools with a capability to handle all instructions (including private instructions) within the test set-up.

This should give users access to device registers; other than just those needed for IEEE Std. 1149.1boundary-scan operations.

For example, registers needed to invoke on-chip emulation modes and programming registers can now be accessed using JFT's Python routines.

The company has also included what it calls a “netlist type autodetect”, which automatically recognises netlist formats as belonging to their respective tool vendors.

The WGL test vector format (as used for IC testing) is also supported through a plug-in.

Customers with current support licences for ProVision and PV_DST will receive CD17 as a matter of course. 

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