Embedded Toolsmiths says its hardware-assisted JTAG debugger now supports AMCC's entire portfolio of 400-series PowerPC processors. The company last week added support for two currently sampling AMCC SAN/RAID SoCs to its Guardian-SE JTAG ICE (in-circuit emulator) and… Agile-DB debugger.

Embedded Toolsmiths announced in March that its tools would support embedded Linux development on AMCC's PowerPC 4xx-series chips. Its software debugger was included in a general purpose embedded development kit launched by AMCC in June. Embedded Toolsmith's tools also gained support recently for Freescale PowerQUICC III chips.

The two currently sampling AMCC storage processors that are newly supported by Embedded Toolsmith tools are the 440SP and the 440SPe. Both are based on 533-667MHz PowerPC cores, and integrate DDR1 and DDR2 memory controllers, GPIO, gigabit Ethernet, I2O messaging units, and PCI-X. The 440SPe adds PCI-Express.

Embedded Toolsmiths says its hardware-assisted debugging solution offers:

• Crash-proof debug of kernel and application space under Linux
• High speed downloads, FLASH programming and single-stepping, when used with JTAG debugger
• Easy-to-use
• Data Book view of on-chip registers
• GUI lets users arrange data on screen
• Turnkey flash libraries for popular devices

Embedded Toolsmiths VP of Engineering Greg Johansen said, “[Our tools] help simplify the debug process [by offering] automatic detection of processor and flash devices and the ability to 'hot plug' into a running system.”

Availability

Guardian-SE and Agile-DB for the entire AMCC 400 series processor family are now available.

 
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