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 ...

Hoehenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Germany /Wilsonville, Ore. – Mentor Graphics Corp. and Lauterbach GmbH have collaborated to deliver a hardware-accelerated software development and debug platform for the ...

As Moore's Law steams ahead, the resulting rush to retool for ever-smaller geometries has led to the realization by most leading companies designing systems-on-chip that the emphasis in SoCs is on ...

ARM, one of the twenty-first century microprocessor standards, has a major presence in SoCs. A 32-bit RISC, it was designed for mid- to low-level applications. It was also designed for low-power ...

Many software-development tools rely on a JTAG (IEEE 1149) interface on microprocessors and microcontrollers to obtain information when programmers debug code. Chip manufacturers might provide their ...

Hardware engineers employ all kinds of design reviews and processes, including design for manufacturability and design for testability. It's time software engineers stood up and asked for what they ...

Researchers at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a system for finding computer bugs in small devices that scavenge their energy from their environment and are subject ...

The race to process more data faster using less power is creating a series of debug challenges at the system level, where developers need to be able to trace interactions across multiple and often ...

When the microprocessor and inexpensive ROM memory arrived in the early 1970s, building small, stored-program computing systems became practical. System designers learned that with the rapidly growing ...