Considerations in the design of a boundary scan runtime library

IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan has become a widely used test technique since its introduction in the 1990s. Such tests are typically developed using software and hardware provided by companies that specialize in boundary scan testing. To help integrate this type of testing into large-scale military test systems, the idea of a boundary scan runtime library was introduced in 2011 and is now beginning to be adopted. Such a runtime library allows each boundary scan supplier´s runtime software to apply previously-developed tests using the general purpose digital hardware in a large-scale military test system, even though those tests were initially developed using different hardware.