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Instant Replay for Debugging SoC Level Simulations

Posted Dec 13, 2011, by Mark Olen

Instant Replay Offers Multiple Views at Any Speed If you’ve watched any professional sporting event on television lately, you’ve seen the pressure put on referees and umpires.  They have to make split-second decisions in real-time, having viewed ultra-high-speed action just a single time.  But watching at home on television, we get the luxury of viewing multiple replays of events in question … Read More

Tags: Verification, testbench, Software as a Testbench, SoC, Functional Verification, Cortex, SoC Level Verification, ARM

Porting Problems

Posted Sep 28, 2009, by Russ Klein

They say one of the first steps to fixing a problem is to acknowledge that you have one. Hi, I’m Russ, and I have a porting problem. If you work on software in the embedded world, you probably have a porting problem, too. Your code may be an embedded application, drivers, or diagnostics, but at some point the code probably started out on a desktop machine of some sort. When you moved it to run on … Read More

Tags: Debug, ARM

Guilty Pleasures

Posted Sep 16, 2009, by Russ Klein

You know you shouldn’t, but you do. I do. We all do. Though we don’t like to admit it. Yes, I use print statements to debug my code. And I work on debug tools for programmers and hardware engineers. I guess that makes me even guiltier. Despite having a plethora of debugging tools and scripting languages, I’ll admit it - one of the first things I do to try to get a handle on a bug is to throw in a … Read More

Tags: Debug, ARM