The RealView® ICE unit is the ARM® leading-edge debug hardware solution that enables the debugger in the RealView Development Suite to connect and control real silicon (or hardware emulations of real silicon). The RealView ICE unit delivers the demanding performance required by today’s developers of sophisticated system-on-chip devices and embedded system software. |  |
The RealView ICE debug hardware provides a universal-ARM solution, i.e., one unit supports all ARM processors in single, multi-core, homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, offering an unparalleled depth and breadth of support for ARM processor-based devices.
In addition, support for non-ARM processors and use with alternative debug software using the Remote Device Debug Interface (RDDI) now enables the RealView ICE unit to become the hub of the only debug hardware solution needed for connection to sophisticated, complex device designs. |
Key features include: | Support for the RealView Trace 2 unit | The RealView ICE unit now supports the new RealView Trace 2 trace data capture plug-in unit, which introduces an innovative data streaming capability to the RealView tools that directly enables hardware platform profiling by the new RealView Profiler product from ARM. | | Debug and Trace of the Cortex Processor Family | The RealView ICE unit comprehensively supports the debug and trace technology for all available CortexTM processors to enable rapid deployment and utilization of the advanced on-chip debug and trace infrastructure. The RealView ICE unit provides the target connection and run-control capability that allows hardware and software developers to generate device bring-up and initilisation code, develop firmware, boot operating systems and debug executable code. | | | Enhanced CoreSight Support | The RealView ICE unit extends support for the CoreSightTM advanced on-chip debug and trace technology to all of the available CoreSight Design Kits. System architects and software developers can now fully utilize and exploit the comprehensive debug and trace capabilities for all ARM processor-based designs, to significantly improve the debug experience and speed development of higher quality products. | | | Serial Wire Debug Connection | The RealView ICE unit fully supports the CoreSight Serial Wire Debug technology that can be used in place of JTAG. Serial Wire Debug reduces the number of debug port pins on a device from 5 pins to 2 pins, for severely pin limited packages and where pin count can be the controlling factor in device costs. |
Other new features include:
- Extended TrustZone security technology support for ARM1176JZF-STM and Cortex-A8 processors
- Multiple connections and utilization of the Debug Communications Channel
- Improved core control and debug through reset and power cycle conditions
- RDDI-LITE provided for low-level JTAG operation programming
- GDB-Eclipse Plug-in for simplified connection and debug with the GNU debugger
- eXDI2 driver to enable debugging of Windows CE using Microsoft’s Platform Builder development tools
Standard features include: Advanced debug support for all available Cortex-A Series, Cortex-R Series and Cortex-M Series processors Full debug support for all available ARM7TM, ARM9TM and ARM11TM processor families High performance run control
- code download at up to 1.2Mbytes/sec
- high speed single-stepping at up to 100 steps/sec Extensible utilization of the Debug Communications Channel (DCC) Support for variable JTAG clock frequencies, 2kHz to 20MHz or 50MHz (LVDS ); very low JTAG clock frequencies (sub-1kHz) for ASIC-emulation environments Wide target-voltage range, from 1.0 to 5.0v
Base unit for the RealView Trace and new RealView Trace 2 add-on expansion modules USB 1.1 and 2.0 compatible connection (Windows platform only) Ethernet 10/100baseT remote and local host connection
Supported Platforms Latest Version
RealView ICE version 3.2 shipping. Please check RealView ICE Software Downloads for all available RealView ICE firmware releases. To upgrade your current version, please refer to the Upgrade Policy. |
