Patent ID: 6988229

Claim:
A method for monitoring and controlling, from a host computer, the real-time logic state of a plurality of target devices in a boundary scan chain, comprising: (a) displaying graphical representations of said target devices on a graphical display device connected to said host computer, (b) running boundary scan operations on said target devices to collect information about said target devices and storing said information in said host computer for said displaying of graphical representation, (c) updating said graphical representations with said information to visually indicate a current real-time logic state of said target devices, (d) initiating and running boundary scan operations via a method that frees the user from generating, preparing, or otherwise creating test vectors, (e) initiating and running boundary scan operations via a method that frees the user from supplying test executives, and (f) whereby a human can view and manipulate a boundary scan enabled device via a graphical user interface.