An SOC (system on chip) includes many components, such as processors, timers, interrupt controllers, buses, memories, and embedded software. It is a complete system that designers a few years back ...

Scandump is an advanced silicon debugging technique that ingeniously repurposes DFT (Design For Testability) scan chains for functional debugging. This method allows for the extraction of states from ...

The increase in complexity of designs being prototyped on FPGAs has led to the increase in need for better debugging techniques. The design being prototyped on the FPGA may be used for performing ...

Debugging embedded designs is becoming increasingly difficult as the number of observed and possible interactions between hardware and software continue to grow, and as more features are crammed into ...

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Whether local or over the Internet, network-based debugging has changed the way applications are developed and tested. Changes were first necessary to accommodate PC-based network applications. Now ...

Version 5.0 of Rocket Vision® Includes SoftPatch, Auto Compare Features That Enable More Efficient Debug, Cut the Number of Synthesis-to-Place-and-Route Loops BEDFORD, Mass.--February 23, ...

Leading embedded processor and intellectual property (IP) developers have adopted the Open Chip Protocol (OCP) socket as a standards-based approach to on-chip bus integration. An emerging capability ...

Sometimes, in debug mode, you find yourself sitting on a line in a method that you have no interest in. What you actually want to do is to get back out of the method and stop in some method you've ...

How can we debug method calls that are not part of our own source code, say a call to JButton.setEnabled()? Java provides us with anonymous inner classes, which come in quite handy for this problem.