29.12.1 EXTEST; 0x0

Mandatory JTAG instruction for selecting the Boundary-scan Chain as Data Register for testing circuitry external to the AVR package. For port-pins, Pull-up Disable, Output Control, Output Data, and Input Data are all accessible in the scan chain. For Analog circuits having off-chip connections, the interface between the analog and the digital logic is in the scan chain. The contents of the latched outputs of the Boundary-scan chain is driven out as soon as the JTAG IR-register is loaded with the EXTEST instruction.

The active states are:

  • Capture-DR: Data on the external pins are sampled into the Boundary-scan Chain.
  • Shift-DR: The Internal Scan Chain is shifted by the TCK input.
  • Update-DR: Data from the scan chain is applied to output pins.