04 April 2008

Lauterbach Debugger & Tracer Supports TI OMAP35x

Lauterbach, a member of the ARM Connected Community, has confirmed that the TRACE32 Powertools are now available for the OMAP35x family from Texas Instruments (TI).

TI’s OMAP35xx family, made up of the OMAP3503/15/25/30, is based on ARM Cortex-A8 based applications processors operating with a clock frequency of 600 Mhz. applications processors offer a combination of general purpose, multimedia and graphics processing in any single-chip combination and allow OEMs to redefine the standards for advanced user interfaces, web browsing, productivity, enhanced graphics and the multimedia experience.

Included in the TRACE32 PowerView software is the HLL debugger for C and C++, the program flow trace, run time statistics and the FLASH programming tool for the FLASH memory.

With TRACE32 PowerTrace, it is possible to use the CoreSight ETM to record the program flow of the Cortex-A8 in real time in an up to 4Gbyte large trace buffer. The CombiProbe trace and debug system allows to trace information from the SDTI interface - correlated with the ETM trace. These basic debug and trace skills are extended by a set of features that can be found only on TRACE32 tools, according to Lauterbach.

TRACE32 PowerTools are connected via USB 2.0 or Ethernet 10/100/1000 MBit/s to host computers running under Windows, Linux or Solaris. All popular target operating systems are supported, including extensive support for Linux, Windows CE and Symbian OS.