Introduction

Texas Instruments and its third parties support a variety of adapters to convert across different JTAG headers and connectors available in the marketplace. This page covers in detail the most common models available.

References

• XDS Target Connection Guide
• Emulation and Trace Headers Technical Referece Manual
• JTAG Connectors and Pinout
• The document Designing for JTAG Emulation Reference Guide describes the 14-pin JTAG connector and target board electrical requirements for XDS510 JTAG support (despite it's title it is not specific to the TMS320C6000 DSP). Also see your debug probe manufacturer's documentation for debug probe specific information.
• The XDS560 Emulator Technical Reference
• For Trace, you may also want to consider reading Common Trace Transmission Problems and Solutions
• Emulation Fundamentals for TI's DSP Solutions

JTAG Adapters

There are two types of connectors:

• Emulator: This is the connector on the emulator/JTAG ICE/UIF/XDS unit
• Target: This is the connector on the target card

Types of adapters

• Pin Converters: passive conversion of one connector type to another
• Adapter: some active components for different purposes. Ex: Addition of adaptive clocking, buffering of TCK/RTCK signals, Isolation, etc.

JTAG connectors cross reference

The table below only references adapters available by TI and its direct third parties. It is possible to find other adapters for sale from external companies.

¹ Isolation adapter

² Voltage Translation

³ RTCK Signal Boost

⁴ Adaptive Clocking

⁵ Available from Lauterbach

⁶ Available from Blackhawk

⁷ Available from Spectrum Digital

⁸ Bundled with Blackhawk XDS100v2 Model D

⁹ Bundled with Spectrum Digital XDS100v3

¹⁰ Bundled with Spectrum Digital XDS200 and XDS220 emulators

¹¹ Bundled with Blackhawk XDS560 emulators: BP (only 20 TI to 14 TI), m, LAN, PCI

¹² Bundled with Spectrum Digital XDS560v2 LC Traveler and Spectrum Digital XDS560v2 STM Traveler

¹³ Bundled with Blackhawk USB560v2

¹⁴ Bundled with Blackhawk XDS560v2 and Spectrum Digital XDS560v2 STM with target adapters

¹⁵ Bundled with Blackhawk XDS200 emulators

¹⁶ Available from Segger

¹⁷ Bundled with Texas Instruments XDS110

Part numbers

TI

TMDSADP1414

Product page: https://www.ti.com/tool/tmdsadp.html

TMDSADP1420

Product page: https://www.ti.com/tool/tmdsadp.html

TMDSADP1460

Product page: https://www.ti.com/tool/tmdsadp.html

TMDSADPEMU-20A

Product page: https://www.ti.com/tool/tmdsadp.html

TMDSADPEMU-20T

Product page: https://www.ti.com/tool/tmdsadp.html

Third party adapters

• Blackhawk adapters has many options, including galvanically isolated adapters

• Spectrum Digital adapters has many options, including voltage level translators and buffers

Discontinued

MDL-ADA2

Replica of the old Luminary product page at Digi-key and at Farnell

Pinouts

Please check the JTAG Connectors and Pinout page for a complete reference about pinouts and part numbers.

Troubleshooting

See the information on troubleshooting JTAG Connectivity Problems at: Debugging JTAG Connectivity Problems.

Resources

TI Code Composer Studio Product Page
Related Technical Documents
TI E2E Technical Forums

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Last updated: May 16 2022 19:55 Central Time