The Trace32 debugger from Lauterbach has added support for the Infineon's latest architecture, the S-Gold. The S-Gold chipset was developed specifically for third generation phones. It has an ARM926 ...

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE: Macraigor Systems has expanded its proprietary On-Chip Debug Technology (OCDemon) to support the newest x86 processor, the Intel Atom. Built with the world’s smallest transistors, ...

The domain of on-chip testability and debug continues to get better. First Silicon Solutions (FS2—Lake Oswego, Oregon), a company that specializes in hardware verification and debug technologies, is ...

The semiconductor industry has spent decades mastering the art of integrated circuit physical verification. But as system-on-chip (SoC) designs push the boundaries of complexity—with more transistors, ...

The PowerPC started out as a RISC challenger to the PC's XC86, developed by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. It lost that race, but it has become a major RISC for ICs, ASSPs, and cores. PowerPCs have a large ...

Debug has always been a painful and unavoidable part of semiconductor design and, despite many technological advances, it remains one of the dominant tasks in chip development. At one time, most bugs ...

ARM, one of the twenty-first century microprocessor standards, has a major presence in SoCs. A 32-bit RISC, it was designed for mid- to low-level applications. It was also designed for low-power ...