About a dozen years ago, the world of test had reached an economic impasse: most digital designs had become sufficiently complex that standard scan testing techniques were no longer cost-effective.

ScanExpress JET bridges the gap between JTAG and functional test methods, providing a superior solution to customers requiring the highest test coverage ScanExpress JET carries existing boundary-scan ...

Ever since OBDII vehicles became the norm, anyone interested in repairing them must have a scan tool at hand. Some people refer to those devices as scan tools, diagnostic machines, or OBD dongles. In ...

John Paul, AAA Northeast's Car Doctor, hears from a reader deciding between a vehicle code reader and a scan tool. The post ...

The traditional approach to moving scan test data from chip-level pins to core-level scan channels is under pressure due to the dramatic rise in design size, design complexity, and test adaptation. To ...

The Urban Prepper tests the Actron OBD II scan tool to support vehicle preparedness and emergency troubleshooting.

If you've been involved in automotive repair for a while, you probably know that modern vehicles use onboard diagnostic (OBD) systems to help notify us when there's a problem. The OBD system works ...

Companies specializing in circuit board and system design-for-test (DFT) tools are pursuing a variety of strategies to serve test and debug applications based on innovations they announced over the ...

Despite its standardization as IEEE 1149.1 in 1990 and wide use in the industry, many test engineers and developers still do not fully understand the benefits of boundary scan test. The misconceptions ...

OBD-II diagnostic device BlueDriver interprets engine error codes to suggest what might need fixing, and lets you know if your car is ready for a smog check. Wayne ...

Q: Today the malfunction light came on in my 2001 VW Passat. I have made an appointment to have it checked and repaired. I checked the cap on the gas tank, and the light didn’t go out. I haven’t ...