Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Green Hills Software | Subject: Green Hills Probe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 September 2001
Debug probe speeds embedded development
Green Hills Software says its Green Hills Probe is the industry's fastest and most intelligent hardware debug probe for 32bit, 64bit and multiprocessor SoC embedded systems.
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Green Hills Software says its Green Hills Probe is the industry's fastest and most intelligent hardware debug probe for 32bit, 64bit and multiprocessor SoC embedded systems. The new probe, together with Green Hills' Multi 2000 source-level debugger and integrated development environment (IDE), streamlines host/target communications and provides many debugging functions previously handled by the host. Using an embedded 32bit processor and reconfigurable logic, the Green Hills Probe, achieves host/target download speeds that are up to one-hundred times faster than its competitors.
The probe also provides advanced target read/write and control facilities, and hosts a built-in web server that simplifies setup, status and diagnostics.
Using the Green Hills Probe, the host-based Multi debugger can upload data from the target, run, halt, and reset the processor, read/write the processor's registers and memory, single-step through code, and set breakpoints.
The probe is also hardware upgradeable to support trace operations, which enable the Multi debugger to acquire target data and program flow information without having to halt the processor.
To maximise interaction speed and download flexibility for a wide variety of processors, including custom hardware, the probe supports target JTAG/BDM clocks ranging from 10kHz to 50MHz in 0.10% increments.
Compatible with Solaris, Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000, HP/UX and Linux hosts, the Green Hills Probe connects to the host debugger via an Ethernet, USB or RS-232C serial port.
Connecting to the target processor is via industry-standard debug ports such as JTAG, EJTAG, COP, BDM and EOnCE.
Most major embedded CPU and DSP architectures, including PowerPC, ARM, MIPS (4Kc/5Kc), StarCore and Lexra are supported, along with SoC designs, including those with multiple homogeneous and heterogeneous cores.
In mult-core SoC applications, the probe accesses the cores sequentially through a single JTAG port.
The Green Hills Probe can be used with target systems operating from 1.5 to 5V, and can be connected/disconnected from the target system while it is running.
Probe diagnostics are included in every segment, right down to the JTAG/BDM pin level.
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