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 ...

In a huge software project for an embedded application, a function behaved in a strange fashion. A variable, which must not be changed while the function is executed, was changed. The function itself ...

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 ...

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ARM (LSE:ARM) (Nasdaq:ARMH) has introduced multi-drop support into the ARM® CoreSight™ Serial Wire Debug (SWD) solution, enabling simultaneous connection to ...

Debug has always been a painful and unavoidable part of semiconductor design and, despite many technological advances, it remains one of the dominant tasks in chip development. At one time, most bugs ...

Debug consumes more time than any other aspect of the chip design and verification process, and it adds uncertainty and risk to semiconductor development because there are always lingering questions ...

Microchip Technology has introduced the MPLAB PICkit Basic, an affordable and versatile in-circuit debugger designed to simplify programming and debugging for engineers, hobbyists, and students. The ...

Enabling a robust on-chip debug capability is being recognized as animportant Design for Debug (DFD) capability for complex SoC and having DFDstandardization makes the Open Core Protocol (OCP) ...

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Debugging today’s advanced systems-on-chip (SoCs) is anything but simple. SoC verification environments require tests spanning billions of cycles (Fig. 1). 1. Many classes of bugs become visible only ...