Intel applies on-chip debug solution: News from Macraigor Systems

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OCDemon, the industry-leading on-chip debug (OCD) technology, has been selected for Intel's IQ80315 software development and processor evaluation kit and is also available for the IOP331 I/O processor. OCDemon offers the industry's most advanced, yet price-sensitive solution for design, debug and programming of hardware designs and application software. Brian Handley, Chief Engineer for Macraigor Systems explained: "Many storage, networking, and embedded applications require fast I/O throughput for optimal performance.

The Intel XScale IOP331 processor allow servers, workstations and storage subsystems to transfer data faster, reduce communication bottlenecks, and improve overall system performance by offloading I/O processing functions from the host CPU.

The OCDemon technology from Macraigor Systems is an integral part of the IQ80315 development kit because it is a proven on-chip debug solution that will help to accelerate our customer's development of I/O application development".

The OCDemon product family consists of three performance- and cost-sensitive solutions for on-chip debug, eliminating the need for target resources such as UARTs, Ethernet channels or parallel ports.

mpDemon is a multiport, on-chip debugger that provides embedded systems developers with the most advanced and intelligent target interface available for target on-chip debug.

The mpDemon offers several connection choices for either JTAG or BDM debug and supports parallel port, RS232 and Ethernet for the host connection and is compatible with Windows and Linux debuggers.

The Raven is mid-priced and operates as a parallel to serial and serial to parallel convertor for OCD signals.

The host PC communicates with the Raven via the EPP mode of the parallel port.

The Wiggler is a low-cost, stable and easy to use device that primarily acts as a signal buffer.

Standard PC parallel ports are specified at LSTTL voltage levels, translating the voltages as appropriate.

The Wiggler and the Raven both interface to the parallel port of a Windows-based host with the other connector attaching to an OCD port of the target system.

This port may be JTAG, E-JTAG, OnCE, COP, BDM or any of several other types of connections.

The Intel IQ80315 software development and processor evaluation kit, featuring dual Intel 80200 processors and an Intel 80314 companion chip, provides a cost-effective platform solution for rapid I/O application software development.

The Intel 80314 is especially well suited for high-performance storage applications such as RAID adapter cards (Fibre Channel, SCSI, Serial-ATA), network storage target devices (NAS, iSCSI) and intelligent network adapter cards (iSCSI, IPv4, IPv6, IPSec).

The Intel IOP331 is a highly integrated I/O system on a chip for I/O-intensive storage, networking, communications, and embedded applications.

The IOP331 features an 800MHz CPU, high-performance internal bus, dual-ported memory controller, a high-bandwidth PCI-X to PCI-X bridge, and an improved interrupt controller to provide a high-performance, highly integrated processor solution.

Target applications include PCI/PCI-X host-based adapters (RAID cards, iSCSI cards, FC cards, Security/SSL NICs etc), control plane and system controller applications using PCI/PCI-X as a system interconnect and/or backplane (virtual private network devices, video servers, network gateways, network attached storage, external storage arrays), PCI/PCI-X-based line cards (VoIP, routers etc), and a host of other applications that require a highly integrated, high-performance system on a chip processor.

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Intel applies on-chip debug solution

OCDemon, the industry-leading on-chip debug technology, has been selected for Intel's IQ80315 software development and processor evaluation kit and is also available for the IOP331 I/O processor.