Many ARM^® processor-based designs have multiple ARM processors and DSP cores and co-processors on the same chip. Until now, it has been necessary to develop and debug the software on each of these processors separately, and simulate the interaction between them. The debugger in RealView® Development Suite enables system developers to simultaneously develop and debug applications on a system with multiple ARM processors or an ARM processor plus a DSP core, within the same debug environment.

Multi-Core Mixed Architecture Debugging

The debugger in RealView Development Suite provides the facility to debug multiple ARM processors or multiple ARM plus DSP cores using a single debug environment. Multiple windows are available for numerous processors and views.

The run control operations start, stop, breakpoint, and single step of each processor can be operated independently or synchronously. A common debug kernel facilitates multi-core, run control debug operations for examining and debugging the interaction of the software running on the different cores on the system.

Cross triggering of multiple processors is supported and enables the synchronous stopping of multiple cores when a breakpoint is hit on any of the processors.

These features allow the entire system to be paused to examine the state of each core, preventing data from being processed (lost) while examining the state of the multi-core system.

For further information on supported DSP's please email realview@arm.com.