UNITES Systems - JTAG (English)

JTAG Technologies is and will stay in the heart of electronics. Electronics is everywhere; the world as we know it wouldn’t function without chips and circuit boards. Mobile phones, cars or even hospital beds can only work with those tiny soldered components. But before any chip can start performing, it needs to be tested. That’s where JTAG Technologies comes in, the Eindhoven based company that has taken the manufacturing and testing of digital and mixed signal PCBs to a new level.

Their boundary scan products can be found in design labs and factories in over 50 countries across the globe and have solved or prevented thousands of board test problems. Since 1993 the company has ensured that this outstanding method for verifying designs and testing printed circuit boards during and after production remained up to date.

Throughout the years, its products and services have grown in line with the evolving standards, technological developments and also with the market and the ever changing regulations.

JTAG/boundary scan, based on IEEE Std 1149.1 and related standards, is now widely used in the electronics manufacturing industry to solve difficult test problems on complex Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs). By overcoming the access difficulties which often degrade the efficiency of conventional test methods, boundary scan has become the pre eminent structural test method in the 21st century. This growth has been further helped by improvements in software application tools and increasingly versatile hardware from JTAG/boundary scan tools providers. Besides test there are additional, derivative uses and application environments for boundary scan. This can lead to benefits across a product’s life cycle, not just in manufacturing testing.