The proliferation and expansion of multicore architectures is making debug much more difficult and time-consuming, which in turn is increasing demand for more comprehensive system-level tools and ...

Part two explains the workings of the JTAG boundary-scan technology. Part four explains how to use breakpoints, event triggers, and program traces to debug code. Emulation is a technology used in the ...

The appeal of embedded systems is clear. A high degree of configurability, readily available commercial intellectual property (IP), and the use of well-understood and accepted protocols and bus ...

The increasing reliance on complex multicore designs is driving the need for comprehensive debugging tools that can answer a variety of challenges. With multiple cores and support structures often ...

Complex system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs with multiple embedded processors and IP blocks present difficult debug challenges. First Silicon Solutions' (FS2) Multi-Core Embedded Debug (MED) system extends ...

Gilbert Laurenti, Texas Instruments Inc. Abstract Debug for SoC adds new requirements and challenges in terms of adding visibility and control to a system, simplifying integration of hardware and ...

Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

Battery life has become theAchilles heel for the success of mobile software platforms, such as Android.The mileage users can get from their battery is severely impacted by software.Software implicitly ...

Embedded designers put microprocessors in everyday products like cars, phones, cameras, TVs, music players, and printers, as well as the communications infrastructure, which the general public doesn’t ...

SpringSoft's VIA Exchange enables custom development and reuse of interoperable applications with the popular Verdi™ Automated Debug System. With open access to the Verdi design knowledge platform and ...