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 ...

Battery life has become theAchilles heel for the success of mobile software platforms, such as Android.The mileage users can get from their battery is severely impacted by software.Software implicitly ...

Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

Anyone involved with software development will have most likely heard (and perhaps even said) the phrase ‘it’s not a bug, it’s a feature’ at some point, and while its origins remain a mystery, its ...

System-on-Chip (SoC) designs are becoming increasingly complex. Modelling, verification, and debug facilities at RTL have become quite inadequate in the face of rising design challenges.

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 ...

Modern trace and debugging techniques. IDEs to use for trace and debugging. In computer programming and software development, engineers will deploy debugging tools and processes to find and mitigate ...

Embedded designers put microprocessors in everyday products like cars, phones, cameras, TVs, music players, and printers, as well as the communications infrastructure, which the general public doesn’t ...

Systems on Chips (SoCs) are getting ever more complex. In the space of a decade, these parts have grown to feature many processors and huge amounts of software. But the best – or the worst – is yet to ...

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 ...