A jumper cable is a wire with connector pins on each end. They can be connected to two electrical points without the need for soldering, and hence are used in prototypes and other applications to change a circuit without much hassle. The wires can come in three versions: male-to-male, male-to-female, and female-to-female.
Digilent’s family of JTAG cables and modules provide engineers designing their own boards with a drop-in solution for programming and debugging the onboard Xilinx silicon from...