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Testing and Debugging DSP Systems, Part 3

Part two explains the workings of the JTAG boundary-scan technology. Part four explains how to use breakpoints, event triggers, and program traces to debug code. Emulation is a technology used in the ...
Electronic Design

Eradicate Hardware And Software Bugs On Multicore SoCs

Able to debug complex SoC designs, this powerful emulator leverages a common JTAG port to diagnose software running in multiple deeply embedded processors. System-on-a-chip (SoC) designs have emerged ...
Design-Reuse

Tools for Test and Debug : Comprehensive tool chains needed to debug multiple processor cores

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 ...
Design-Reuse

Opinion: DSP vendors' focus shifting to software

As time-to-market pressures build, OEMs are looking to their suppliers to broaden support and help them succeed in their markets. As we have explored in previous columns, suppliers of DSP technologies ...
EDN

Testing and Debugging DSP Systems, Part 1

Part two explains the workings of the JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) boundary-scan technology. In software development, perhaps the most critical, yet least predictable stage in the process is debugging. Many ...