[Matthew “wrongbaud” Alt] is well known around these parts for his hardware hacking and reverse-engineering lessons, and today he’s bringing us a JTAG hacking primer that demoes some cool new hardware ...

– Extend the IEEE 1149.1 Test Bus into a Multi-drop Backplane Environment (This allows cards to be removed from the backplane without breaking the JTAG chain) – A Mode Register Allows Local TAPS to be ...

When Microsoft released its first entry into the video game console market with the Xbox, a lot of the discussions at the time revolved around the fact that it used a nearly off-the-shelf Intel CPU ...