looking for a 4-pin JTAG interface to the serial wire protocol external to the ASIC?

We have implemented a serial wire debug port (2-pin SWD) in our ASIC, but do not provide access to the DAP via a standard JTAG interface.  We have a test setup expects to connect via a classic JTAG interface.  Is there a solution that would convert the 4-pin JTAG interface to the serial wire protocol external to the ASIC?

David

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  • Hi David,

    I am not aware of any such conversion I am afraid, so you would have to be a bit creative on this front I am afraid.

    Most debug tools will handle the protocol directly within the debug hardware that is connected to the JTAG/SWD port.

    You could create something that maps JTAG accesses (to a DAP) to SWD accesses, but there's engineering and validation in that.

    Or change your test setup to use SWD, but again, there's engineering & validation effort required.

    The JTAG-AP port of an ARM DAP doesn't support SWD, so you couldn't somehow synthesize something using that either....

    Hope that helps (probably not I suspect).

    Regards,

    Stuart

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  • Hi David,

    I am not aware of any such conversion I am afraid, so you would have to be a bit creative on this front I am afraid.

    Most debug tools will handle the protocol directly within the debug hardware that is connected to the JTAG/SWD port.

    You could create something that maps JTAG accesses (to a DAP) to SWD accesses, but there's engineering and validation in that.

    Or change your test setup to use SWD, but again, there's engineering & validation effort required.

    The JTAG-AP port of an ARM DAP doesn't support SWD, so you couldn't somehow synthesize something using that either....

    Hope that helps (probably not I suspect).

    Regards,

    Stuart

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