Why are the JTAG interfaces for Spartan-6 and big 7-series FPGA chips separated?

Solution

The JTAG interface is divided into 2 chains to prevent accidental/unintended reconfiguration of the Spartan-6 FPGA chip, which controls processes of programming, testing, clock module configuration, etc.



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