Debugging embedded designs is becoming increasingly difficult as the number of observed and possible interactions between hardware and software continue to grow, and as more features are crammed into ...

The J-Trace connects to your host computer using a so-called full-speed (12-Mbit/s) USB 2.0 (Universal Serial Bus) connection. The unit includes a 2-Mbyte- trace buffer. No power supply is required, ...

Of course I will be in trouble once this blog is posted. This post is about hardware/software debug, and I tried to layer a set of different levels for the scope and applicability of debug. I counted ...

I am a recent graduate with no experience in the lab. I am testing a four-port WAN-adapter card. At room temperature, it transmits and receives data perfectly, rarely losing a data packet. In my heat ...

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The Green Hills Probe is a fast and intelligent hardware debug probe for Motorola's StarCore-based MSC810x DSPs and StarCore-based SoC embedded systems. Together with the company's Multi 2000 ...

Researchers at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a system for finding computer bugs in small devices that scavenge their energy from their environment and are subject ...

Attackers with access to a device can take control over a target's computer and bypass all local security systems by abusing a hardware debugging interface included with Intel CPUs, which in recent ...

It could be laying the foundation for whatever the Xbox division is cooking up, too.