All Debug & Optimization Development Articles
Finding best practices in software and hardware testing, debugging, optimization, and emulation.
All Debug & Optimization Development Articles
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How to use UML in your SoC hardware/software design: Part 1
21 July 2006
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In this first in a four part series, Steve Mellor and the coauthors of "UML for SoC Design" describe ... Read More
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Back to the basics: Picking the right computational model
27 December 2005
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Embedded developers can use the models of computation concept to span multiple ways of representing... Read More
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Use virtual prototypes to model multiprocessor system power needs
25 October 2005
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Virtual system prototypes can be a powerful and effective means to model, analyze, and optimize... Read More
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Back to the Basics: Compiler optimization for smaller, faster embedded application code
19 September 2005
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In addition to the right hardware and operating system, key to processor performance, cost and... Read More
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How to capture boundary scan information from a BGA-packaged IC
08 August 2005
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How to pry test and status information out of an integrated circuit in a ball grid array package... Read More
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New sampling technique underpins 100-GHz-bandwidth scopes
01 April 2005
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Oscilloscope maker LeCroy has two new digital scopes that exhibit 100-GHz bandwidths and a unique... Read More
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'Vast' speedup in simulation
15 June 2004
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Vast Systems' new Comet 5 software permits simulation at 25-160 MIPS on PCs, and adds new... Read More
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The Risk/Reward Realities of Chip Development
07 November 2002
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Chip vendors face a growing gap between design complexity and conventional signoff methodologies.... Read More
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Watchdog Timers
01 November 2000
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To keep a watchdog timer from resetting your system, you've got to kick it regularly. But that's not ... Read More
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Strategies for Debugging Embedded Systems
01 October 2000
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The best time to detect bugs is early in the development process. If you instrument your UML, you... Read More
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Sequence Enumeration
01 September 2000
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Sequence enumeration is a technique for analyzing systems. It can be used to turn a complex set of... Read More
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Sensible software testing
01 August 2000
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To find and kill bugs, you must know where they live. You can use knowledge about the sorts of... Read More
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Special Report: The State of the Art of Debuggers
01 January 1999
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Learn to love your debugger--you're going to spend a lot of time with it. Read More
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Hardware-Assisted Debugging (1992)
22 September 1992
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Programming for embedded systems has always been complicated by the difficulty of debugging embedded ... Read More
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Application Tuning for Speed and/or Size
22 September 1992
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The slides from this presentation cover: - Application tuning for performance is a two sided... Read More
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Code Reviews and Walkthroughs
22 September 1992
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Each aspect of the Software Engineering Process addresses a different goal or objective, and each... Read More
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Emulation and Logic Analysis in RealTime Debugging
22 September 1992
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Recent surveys have shown a strong trend in the embedded microprocessor applications market toward... Read More
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Debugging C at the Source Level
24 September 1991
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Full-screen source- level debuggers like Microsoft Code View and Borland TurboDebugger have become... Read More
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Hardware-Assisted Debugging
24 September 1991
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In this paper, I will describe some techniques for utilizing various types of hardware to help ease... Read More
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Inside Symbolic Debugging for the M68HC16 Microprocessors
24 September 1991
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The Motorola M68HC16 Microprocessor has a background mode serial port to facilitate accessing the... Read More
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Mixed signal verification of Sigma Delta ADCs in an SoC
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The millennium bug revisited
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Basics of real-time measurement, control, and communication using IEEE 1588: Part 5
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Mastering stack and heap for system reliability: Part 1 – Calculating stack size
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