Company Overview
Company History
In 2001, American Arium announced its move into the ARM® market, following shortly with the launch of the SC-1000 JTAG emulator and SourcePoint™ 5.0. Today the company offers the SC-1000A with ETM trace capability, the robust LC-500 run controller, and the GT-1000 trace port analyzer featuring 1 GByte of trace memory and a 640MHz trace capture rate.
American Arium's flagship SourcePoint debug interface runs on a Microsoft® Windows® or Linux host. In the last two years the company has added Linux OS aware debug to its list of capabilities. It supports full symbolic, source-level debugging of Linux kernel code and source-level debug of Linux embedded applications, operates from reset through OS boot even on headless targets, and handles debug of dynamically loaded and relocatable kernel modules, the latter two of which are industry firsts. Company Objective
Target Markets
Hardware-assisted debug solutions for targets with ARM and Intel® based processors. These include:
- Major PC original equipment manufacturing.
- High-end embedded computing platforms - ( routers, switches, network devices).
- Peripheral card development (SCSI, Fibre Channel, graphics).
- Embedded devices (PDAs, disk drives, industrial controls, wireless phones).
Primary Business
American Arium is a leading supplier of JTAG in-circuit emulators and debuggers for embedded system development and the personal computing industry. Its product line supports both ARM and Intel architectures including the ARM7™, ARM9™, and ARM11™ processors , and the Intel XScale®, Xeon™, Pentium® M/II/III/4, and Celeron® processors. In addition, American Arium's products support AMD64 processors. Throughout the industry, American Arium's products are used to debug embedded applications, BIOS/Intel Platform Innovation Framework for EFI, device drivers, and OS kernels.
American Arium's mission is to meet and exceed the needs of hardware and software developers by providing them with the right tools to help them minimize their debug cycle.
Company History with ARM
Overview
American Arium provides hardware-assisted software debug solutions for users employing ARM core-based processors on their targets.
ARM technologies your company supports
All ARM7, ARM9, ARM11 processor families and OMAP
How long has the company been working with ARM?
Since 2001
Specialist areas as an ARM partner?
Development tools
How does the company work with ARM?
American Arium is not an ARM licensee. The company supports licensees and their customers with software development tools.
Are there any end products that your/ARM technology is being shipped with?
American Arium's LC-500, GT-1000 and GT-1000D products have an embedded processor in the boxes.
Recent ARM product launch?
In March this year American Arium, announced SourcePoint™ 6.2 for the ARM Architecture. This latest version of the company's flagship debugger features support for ARM11 core family and gigabyte trace with capture rates up to 640 MHz. SourcePoint 6.2 interfaces to Arium's LC-500 JTAG debugger and SC-1000A, GT-1000, and GT-1000D trace port analyzers. Company Overview
Solutions
American Arium's tight integration of hardware and software for emulation lends itself to a robust debugging environment, helping to minimize the challenges associated with debugging code. Solutions include:
- Hardware bring-up.
- Driver development/debug.
- BIOS development/debug.
- EFI Framework development/debug.
- OS and application development/debug.
- 3rd party support for OEM system development.
American Arium's products are developed in-house and include its own debugging software interface, SourcePoint™, and numerous hardware emulator offerings.
What is unique about American Arium's solution(s)?
In terms of tracing an ETM port, American Arium offers the highest trace capture available at 640 MHz half-clock and 320 MHz full-clock modes. Trace depth is an amazing 1 Gbyte of memory. Another very unique feature is our Linux OS-aware debug offering. Users can debug Linux from board reset through BSP, kernel launch, dynamically loaded drivers, and application code. No other tool on the market offers this powerful capability.
Software
SourcePoint is American Arium's flagship software debugger for ARM processor-based and Intel processor-based platforms. The interface gives the developer unsurpassed visibility to and manipulation of code via a series of intuitive screens and dialogs with numerous viewing and customization options, supports industry-standard input file formats, and includes a robust C-like command language. Key features include the ability to edit code "on the fly" with SourcePoint® IDE powered by Visual SlickEdit®, a "hot plugging" feature that lets a developer plug the emulator into his or her target and initiate a debug session at the point at which their code has hung without resetting the target, Linux OS aware debug (ARM), and support for the Intel Platform Innovation Framework for EFI. SourcePoint operates in real time with all core frequencies and works with today's most popular compiler tool chains.
Emulators
ARM Core-Based Solutions - American Arium JTAG emulators support the ARM7, ARM9, and ARM11 processors . Currently, American Arium offers the SC-1000A with ETM trace capability, the robust LC-500 run controller, and the GT-1000 trace port analyzer featuring 1 GByte of trace memory and a 640MHz trace capture rate.
Company website: http://www.arium.com
White papers: http://www.arium.com/support/techdocs.html
GT-1000product information at: http://www.arium.com/products/gt1000ice.html |
