We’ve all been there. When debugging a microcontroller project, we just want to put in a print statement to figure out what’s going on with the microcontroller in real time. However, advanced embedded ...

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 ...

Microcontrollers are general-purpose devices that need software to make them application specific. In order to make the software work it needs to be debugged. At one time, debugging consisted of ...

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Renesas Technology America, Inc. today announced the E8a emulator, an ultra-small, low-priced, environment-friendly on-chip debugging emulator for developing ...

Before the introduction of on-chip debugging, most software developers were using expensive In-Circuit Emulators (ICE) for application testing on microcontrollers.High-end emulators were connected via ...

Microcontroller debuggers and associated tools are essential for developers working on embedded systems. They help developers find and fix bugs, test code and optimize performance. Advanced debugging ...

Woodcliff Lake, NJ, May 30, 2012 — Semiconductor IP provider CAST, Inc. now offers a debugging solution for 8051 IP cores that requires a single connection instead of the four needed for traditional ...

For debugging embedded microcontrollers running at 200MHz speeds tool vendors are making use of high speed serial interfaces such as USB to speed up data transfers. But the Nexus high speed interface ...

Writing code for embedded applications can be difficult. There are all sorts of problems you can run into – race conditions, conflicting peripherals, unexpected program flow – any of these can cause ...