EDN

Chip tool provides complex debug, analysis

The nESL debug system for complex chip designs provides advanced transaction debug and analysis, a SystemC compiler, visualization and tracing tools, and hardware-software debug interfaces. These ...
EDN

New Standard Expands Debugging Access in Complex Chips

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Four Requirements To Improve Chip Design Debug

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 ...
ZDNet

Automating chip debugging

You all know that fixing bugs in computer chips after they've been fabricated in silicon is a tedious and costly process. This is why researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new ...
Business Wire

Renesas Introduces E8a Emulator, a Low-priced, Ultra-small Tool for Debugging Embedded Systems and Programming a Microcontroller's On-chip Flash Memory

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the E8a emulator, an ultra-small, low-priced, environment-friendly on-chip debugging emulator for developing ...
Electronic Design

ARM On-Chip Debug Hardware

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 ...
Business Wire

SpringSoft Delivers Breakthrough Productivity with Third Generation Chip Debug Platform

HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpringSoft, Inc., a global supplier of specialized IC design software, today unveiled the third generation of its market-leading debug automation software. The new ...
Network World

Researchers look to get rid of chip debugging problems once and for all

Researchers said today they have developed a chip-debugging program that promises to reduce silicon problem resolution from days to hours while saving potentially millions of dollars. The technology, ...
Design News

Macraigor Systems Extends On-Chip Debug Support to Intel's Atom Processor

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE: Macraigor Systems has expanded its proprietary On-Chip Debug Technology (OCDemon) to support the newest x86 processor, the Intel Atom. Built with the world’s smallest transistors, ...
Design-Reuse

Vennsa Technologies Sets Sights on Moving Chip Verification Beyond Debug

TORONTO –– June 3, 2010 –– Vennsa Technologies Inc., based here, today unveiled its plans to become the leading supplier of automated ...
Electronic Design

On-Chip Debugging

Bill: Today we have the hardware hooks to debug processors with on-chip memory. But it's not enough. Code size and chip clock rates have risen, so we need better on-chip debugging resources. Ray: ...