Digital Trends

Intel responds to report about hackers gaining access to a debugging interface

Intel responded to a claim about hackers gaining hardware-level access to PCs sporting its sixth- and seventh-generation processors. The claim was made during a presentation at the 33rd annual Chaos ...
Bleeping Computer

Intel CPUs Can Be Pwned via USB Port and Debugging Interface

The debugging interface is JTAG (Joint Test Action Group), a debugging framework that has been included for many years with Intel chipsets. JTAG works under the software level, allowing engineers, ...
EDN

JTAG 101 – Part 1: Overview and On-Chip Debug Methods

JTAG (jay-tag) is one of the engineering acronyms that has been transformed into a noun, although arguably it is not so popular as RAM, or CPU. IEEE Std 1149.1-1990 IEEE Standard Test Access Port and ...
Electronic Design

USB Device Provides JTAG/BDM Debugging

Designed for JTAG and background debug mode (BDM) debugging, the usbDemon USB device features an application programming interface that is fully compatible with industry-standard software debuggers, ...
Design-Reuse

Cut Down Silicon Cost with SWORD - the Single Wire Debugging Solution from Evatronix

The new Single Wire On-chip Rapid Debugging (SWORD) interface decreases silicon pad usage by the factor of 4 compared to JTAG. Bielsko-Biala/Poland, March 7th, 2012 - The silicon intellectual property ...