For an embedded developer, few things are more frustrating than hunting down an elusive bug or performance issue in firmware, especially on remote devices with limited debugging access. You’re often ...

The power-performance-area (PPA) metric and time-to-market of modern system-on-chips (SoCs) are dominated by two major issues: on-chip interconnects and layout parasitics. Especially, as the industry ...

Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

There appears to be an unwritten law about the time spent in debug-it is a constant. It could be that all gains made by improvements in tools and methodologies are offset by increases in complexity, ...

Designing robust systems using a high-speed interface like USB Type-C requires a great deal of care. When the interface involves advanced features like USB power delivery, debugging designs becomes ...

Debug consumes more time than any other aspect of the chip design and verification process, and it adds uncertainty and risk to semiconductor development because there are always lingering questions ...

I regularly use Powershell to create a PSsession, for when I'm modifying groups of 20+ users. The verbose print and errors for debugging are quickly closed with the session when the script runs. Do we ...

The UK Met Office is rolling out the Allinea DDT debugger on its newest supercomputers. The debugging tool will be used to help the scientists and developers to develop their widely used forecasting ...

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If you develop an application on a small microcontroller, your diagnostic tools for debugging of the program code might be very limited. This Design Idea introduces a simple debugging routine for ...