JTAG header highway robbery

We don't want people having to hold some pogo thing against the board; they only have two hands and need to type too. So each board would need fixturing. Now, we just plug a ribbon cable from a jtag pod into the header.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 
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We use reduced pin JTAG 2mm 10 pin SMD 57202-G52-05LF 4mm post about $0.85/100 57202-G51-05LF 2mm post about $0.55/100

Wired up a 10 conductor 2.54mm pitch cable and female IDC to a

2mm pitch IDC female. The 2.54 plugs into the jtag programmer.
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Chisolm 
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Joe Chisolm

I've used this method. The board had holes, and my pins had shoulders so they located in the holes but didn't shoot right down. It was a bit awkward.

If I was doing it again I'd use two actual pins on the pogo fixture to locate it, and have the pins contact topside pads with no holes.

Clifford Heath.

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Clifford Heath

Pretty easy to make this on a bit of PCB, as I said above.

Clifford Heath.

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Clifford Heath

you can also cheat and use regular pin headers that locks in a modified footprint

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Lasse Langwadt Christensen

Why? They should have finished typing, and just need to hit ENTER. Anything beyond that is development, not production programming.

Clifford Heath

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Clifford Heath

The computer may not be in close reach.

And we do development too.

Really, people want to save a dollar and waste expensive people's time.

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John Larkin         Highland Technology, Inc 
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John Larkin

Alternatively, people who CBF setting up their production area sensibly.

Obviously you'd just solder something in for development.

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Clifford Heath

You can use one of these:

I used them but my problem was board space and these really didn't save anything.

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krw

That one has a full shroud (it covers the ends too) the pins seem to be about the same length and girth. The 20Meg contact resistance is hopefully a typo!

plating is gold flash so probably not only good for a few insertion cycles.

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Jasen Betts

TAG Connect.

Tim

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Tim Williams

Use the card edge if you can. Otherwise the old fashioned (100mil?)pin headers. They tend to be cheapest. samtec is good if you need specific height or stackable thingies, but otherwise too expensive.

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Johann Klammer

Can't they be programmed through their serial port? Might need an extra jumper to hold a boot pin high?

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Mike Perkins 
Video Solutions Ltd 
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Mike Perkins

Use standard 20 x 0.1" headers and one of these:

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Mike Perkins 
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Mike Perkins

The issue there is all the wasted space at the ends. There's no good reason for all that extra plastic as far as I can tell, and it won't fit the footprint we're using. :(

The NXP LPClink programmer boards use those.

Thanks

Phil Hobbs

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Phil Hobbs

I use an 8-pin header, it carries all the pins needed (+power, Gnd, TMS, TDI, TDO and TCLK). Actually, I have 3 grounds, too. I just leave a 2X4

2mm hole pattern on the board and do not stuff it. I have a cable adapter made up for my Xilinx programming pod, and put a through-hole header in the pod's connector. I push the pins of the header into the holes it the board and apply a little sideways pressure during programming. The header is made from the snap-to-length dual-row 2mm header stock from China.

I get it from Digi-Key, part # 609-2624. There are probably cheaper lines of this, too.

Jon

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Jon Elson

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