XJTAG 4.3 Change Log

• XJDeveloper
  • Boards Screen:
    • Update the FTDI controller device reference in the project when the board is renamed.
    • Default to the grid view when there are more than ten boards.
    • Fix a crash when attempting to open an invalid schematic file from the Manually Create Board wizard.
    • Fix a potential crash trying to remove an invalid schematic.
  • Connections Screen:
    • Fix a potential crash undoing a connection between an FTDI device and a manual device.
    • Fix scaling of icons on the toolstrip for manually created devices.
    • Make copying to the clipboard copy just the selected cell of a manual device pin and not the whole row.
  • Power/Ground Nets Screen:
    • Remove option to re-assign linked nets since they cannot be categorised independently of their parent.
  • JTAG Chain Screen:
    • Take net connections into account when validating XJLink pin connections.
    • Fix a potential crash copying a file out of the BSDL library.
  • Categorise Devices Screen:
    • Fix an issue where suggestions for a board where being skipped when the board had no direct power/ground categorisations but did have connections to power/ground nets on other boards.
    • Add a banner to the Suggested Categorisation dialog when a board is being skipped due to missing BOM data or power/ground net categorisations.
  • Constant Pins Screen:
    • Allow pins to be edited by double-clicking.
    • Fix an issue where a pin state could be lost when editing the pin.
    • Ensure that the error icon is displayed in the correct location when the dialog is narrower.
  • Test Device Files Screen:
    • Allow the value set dropdown to be searched for part numbers in multi-sourced configurations.
    • Add a method of reverting a modified library file to the original version.
    • Fix a potential crash when undoing or redoing adding multiple configuration variables.
  • Logic Files Screen:
    • Validate the text entered for logic gate pins.
    • Fix a potential crash switching to the screen after assigning a new logic device.
    • Make removing truth tables more obvious.
  • Test Coverage Screen:
    • Ensure that the defaults for the test summary report are remembered correctly.
  • Pin Mapping Screen:
    • Sort subchains by TAP group by default rather than by name in Advanced Configuration Options.
    • Update the pinmap diagram width when the channel pin count changes.
    • Ensure that XJLink connections are also removed when undoing the editing of an FTDI cable pinmap.
    • Fix an issue where the vertical scrollbar on the Advanced Configuration Options tab could disappear when reducing the size of the window.
    • Ensure that the FTDI pin mapping matches the selected FTDI device before enabling or disabling chain debugger operations.
    • Fix a potential crash undoing FTDI device changes.
  • XJRunner Setup Screen:
    • Ensure that board initialisation function properties are saved correctly.
  • Run Tests Screen:
    • Disable the option to change the output font while tests are running.
    • Don’t allow the test list selection to be modified while tests are running.
  • Code Editors:
    • Update incremental search icons to be consistent with the rest of the application.
    • Handle a file being deleted and recreated outside of the application.
    • Improve navigating to the target of a CALL function via F12.
    • Fix a possible crash trying to find all references for a dynamic CALL statement.
    • Move the cursor to the item within the line and not just to the start of the line, when using Go To Definition.
  • Variants:
    • Don’t allow FTDI controllers to be varied to passive.
  • Revisions:
    • Handle FTDI devices.
  • Explorer:
    • Allow the XJLink PINS connector to be searched for.
    • Don’t update the schematic/layout view when follow-in is enabled and Explorer’s selection is changed indirectly through editing the project.
    • Ensure that the correct schematic window is used in follow-in when multiple schematics are open.
  • Fix various issues with the Find dialog when opened when viewing diffs in the XJEase Library browser.
  • Fix a potential crash after packing a project with an empty undo stack.
  • Fix a possible crash stopping code execution as a board initialisation function completes.
• XJAnalyser
  • Fix loading Golden Scan data from an XJPack file and make it clear that it cannot be modified.
  • Ensure that items in the pin watch are inserted at the correct location when moving them via dragging and the project contains variants.
  • Fix some possible crashes attempting to draw the chain to a very small area.
  • Fix a potential crash changing the view type when the View combobox has overflowed off the toolbar.
  • Fix a potential crash in the project setup wizard if there is an unexpected error reported by the XJLink.
  • Add the ability to reset the application’s layout.
  • Report elapsed time for SVF and STAPL files.
• XJRunner
  • Apply safe pin mapping immediately to each XJLink when testing completes in group mode.
  • Select XJLinks Dialog:
    • Change the Exit button to Cancel.
    • If the dialog is cancelled, abandon opening the project.
    • Show which controllers are compatible with the project.
  • Extend the dropdown of the search box in the Full Connection Test Output dialog to match the width of the text box.
• XJRunner-FPGA
  • Ensure that opening an XJPack file from Explorer opens XJRunner-FPGA rather than XJRunner in this type of installation.
  • Ensure the correct application name is displayed in various places.
• JTAG Chain Debugger
  • Optimise Get Max. TCK Frequency for FTDI controllers.
  • Allow the selected XJLink to be changed without needing to restart the application.
  • Display information about the currently selected XJLink.
  • When loading an XJPack file, limit the XJLink selection to only those that are compatible with the pin mapping.
• XJLink Manager
  • Remember column settings for the list of modules.
  • Fix pasting a new cloud licensing key.
  • Fix the enabled states of buttons when selecting/unselecting FTDI devices.
  • Licensing Dialog:
    • Enable the Details button before validation is done and make it perform the validation.
    • Display a read-only view if licensing settings are locked by another application.
  • Fix an issue where XJLinks plugged in or unplugged while the XJLink Manager is starting may be missed.
  • Fix a potential crash when Windows prevents a notification from being displayed.
• Layout Viewer
  • Display a save dialog rather than an open dialog when exporting an image.
  • Look for a pad on a pin’s net if not found on the pin’s subnet.
  • Fix a potential crash when re-initialising if the graphics system reports an out of memory error.
• Schematic Viewer
  • Fix a potential hang in certain circumstances.
• XJEase
  • Automatically delete orphaned compilation output directories in the background.
  • Fix dynamic CALL statements when used with variables that have been bit-manipulated.
• Projects
  • Add a less verbose format for saving variant profiles.
  • Set the project compatibility version correctly when bus access overrides are used.
  • Fix a potential crash if a pin mapping contains an invalid PIO pin.
• FTDI – Fix enumeration of FTDI devices on some machines with cascading PCI busses.
• Logic – Fix an issue where access to non-JTAG test equipment was not being calculated correctly through logic.
• Connection Test – Fix an issue where a spurious short error could be reported on termination nets.
• SVF – Fix two regressions in the new parser when handling a failure to open the SVF file.
• Netlists – Make the IPC-2581 importer more robust.
• Takaya – Add a missing configuration file that was preventing the application from starting.
• Help
  • Document the bulk licensing file format.
  • Fix a potential crash when closing the help window.
• Installer – Use XJEase library v202.

Main features

• Add support for FTDI JTAG controllers.
• Allow licences to be served from the internet for evaluations.
• Add support for XJLink-PF20 and XJLink-PF40 in Chain Debugger, XJAnalyser and the Manually Create Board wizard in XJDeveloper.

Smaller enhancements and bug fixes

• XJDeveloper
  • Boards Screen: Fix an issue where it was possible for the manually created board wizard to select the wrong netlist on completion.
  • JTAG Chain Screen: Allow any number of JTAG chains to be defined without a supporting pin mapping yet defined.
  • Don’t automatically open the Add Board dialog when creating a new project or opening a project without any boards defined.
  • Prompt to create a different pin mapping type when creating a new project with hardware attached that does not match the default pin mapping type selected in the application options.
  • Add an application option to set the default pin mapping type to create for all new projects.
  • Fix an issue where selector dialogs were not parented correctly to the Explorer window and closing the Explorer window would leave the main application unusable.
  • Improve the amount of diagnostic information in the XJDeveloper actions log file.
• XJAnalyser
  • Remove the ability to import pre-v3.0 projects.
  • Do not copy BSDL files from the library if the user opts not to copy them.
  • Remember previous device settings when editing the JTAG chain.
  • Fix a crash attempting to run with an XJLink type that is not supported by the project.
  • Fix a potential crash after editing JTAG chain with constant pins defined.
• Layout Viewer
  • Ensure the Export, Print and Print Preview dialogs are parented correctly.
• XJLink Manager
  • Improve saving of application layout settings.
• XJIntegration
  • Change the XJLink.SerialNumber property to be a string rather than a uint, so increment the assembly version to 3.0.0.0 due to the breaking change.
  • Ensure that the Runner.OutputFromLastTestRun property is always reset when running multiple functions.
  • Fix potential unnecessary memory usage when opening projects and running code in a tight loop.
  • Fix an memory management issue in the Single Test Run VI.
• XJPack
  • Modernise the command-line switches, replacing various switches with a single dash with two dashes, but keeping the old ones for compatibility.
• XJRun
  • Modernise the command-line switches, replacing various switches with a single dash with two dashes, but keeping the old ones for compatibility.
• XJEase
  • Allow CALL statements with non-constant values for the device reference and function name.
  • Allow CALL statements inside test device files.
  • Add FUNCTION_EXISTS function to determine if a test function exists for a specific test device.
  • Fix GET_DEVICE_TYPE function to return a more consistent value when a device has multiple categorisations.
  • Add a method to allow external APIs to print formatted text.
  • Add a method to allow external APIs to open files from inside XJPack files.
  • Ensure that when constant integer expressions are evaluated by the compiler, the width of the resulting value is consistent with what happens wen evaluating the same expression using non-constant values at runtime.
  • Improve error messages for invalid device references.
• Projects
  • Write all devices onto separate lines in board files, to help viewing diffs and handling merges in source control systems.
• Ensure that the correct build date is displayed in any error log that is generated.
• Installer
  • Remove standalone Layout Viewer application.