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 2: A review of on-chip debug types

Several processor vendors have extended JTAG software debug, often to make it faster, or to add hardware trace capabilities. The NEXUS consortium for example defines an auxiliary port containing a ...
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 ...