EDN

Testing and Debugging DSP Systems, Part 2

Part one introduces the hardware used for debugging, the debugging challenges facing DSP programmers, and debugging methodologies.Part three explains how emulators control programs on the DSP through ...
Electronic Design

Working with High-Level-Language Debuggers in RISC-V-Based Apps

What are the RISC-V External Debug Support Version 0.13.2 specifications? Advantages of a using high-level-language debugger. The role of the ubiquitous breakpoints in debugging. How trace is ...
EDN

Multi-Core — A New Challenge for Debugging

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 ...
Electronic Design

PowerPC On-Chip Debug Hardware Resources

The PowerPC started out as a RISC challenger to the PC's XC86, developed by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. It lost that race, but it has become a major RISC for ICs, ASSPs, and cores. PowerPCs have a large ...
Design-Reuse

Debug IP for SoC Debug

Any developer, but above all the firmware or software developer, building a complex, microprocessor-based embedded product faces an enormous challenge to get a reliable, high performance product to ...
Design-Reuse

Standard Debug Interface Socket Requirements For OCP-Compliant SoC

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 ...