28 March 2008

American Arium Debug Support In ARM CoreSight Environment

American Arium, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has unveiled  debug support for software and firmware developers working in an ARM CoreSight environment.

SourcePoint 6.6, the latest version of the company's debugger, allows developers to debug targets incorporating heterogeneous processors. In addition, trace can now be gathered on targets supporting multiple Embedded Trace Macrocells (ETMs), including those with different architectures such as ARM11 and Cortex, the company said.

"As targets move to multi-processor design to increase performance, they become more complex," said Larry Traylor, Arium's CEO. "Today's developers are searching for state-of-the-art debuggers to meet the challenges that come with that complexity. With the introduction of SourcePoint 6.6, Arium offers a tool that addresses those issues directly. Our newest version of SourcePoint allows for multi-processor devices to be quickly and easily controlled and traced."

SourcePoint 6.6 supports ARM7, ARM9, ARM11 and Cortex cores. The debugger works with Arium's HS-1000S and GT-1000D ETM trace port analyzers and LC-500 JTAG emulator. The HS-1000S delivers a 256 MByte ETM trace depth with a blazing 680 MS/s trace capture rate. The GT-1000D sports a 640 MS/s trace capture rate and a huge 1 GByte trace buffer.

The Arium solution delivers full symbolic, source-level debugging of Linux kernel code (including loadable kernel modules) and applications (including shared libraries). Developers can launch or attach to processes with seamless transitions to and from the kernel and each process. In addition, Arium delivers kernel debug straight out of reset, dynamic debug of loaded Linux kernel modules, and Linux console output through the JTAG port, eliminating the need for a serial or Ethernet port on the target.

SourcePoint is available with the purchase of an Arium ETM trace port analyzer or JTAG emulator.