An electronic device comprises a processing stage, a JTAG port including a test data input pin (TDI), a test data output pin (TDO), a test mode select pin (TMS), a test clock pin (TCK), and a test access port (TAP) controller having a data register (DR) shift state and an instruction register shift (IR) state. The electronic device operates in a scan event mode automatically mapped an incoming event to the TDO pin.