Sunnyvale, CA — (press release excerpt) — MontaVista Software Inc. and Embedded Performance Inc. (EPI) announced today the availability of an embedded Linux-based solution for hardware debugging of Intel XScale microarchitecture processors.

The joint MontaVista Software / EPI solution provides developers who are embedding MontaVista Linux on Intel PXA250 and Intel PXA210 processors with a high-speed debugging tool. These developers can now leverage the EPI MAJIC series Multi-processor Advanced JTAG Interface Controllers to perform hardware-based debugging, accelerate system bring-up and conduct source-level debugging of the MontaVista Linux kernel and device drivers.

“Our joint offering is significant in that it brings the power of JTAG-based run-control and real-time execution tracing, a mainstay of traditional embedded development, into the mainly software-based embedded Linux arena,” said Norbert Laengrich, EPI president and CEO.

Embedded Performance Inc. will immediately begin offering pre-built configurations of MAJICMX interface software and probes for MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 2.1 for the Intel XScale microarchitecture. For booting and debugging the MontaVista Linux kernel and drivers, developers will be able to use the familiar, standard GDB debugger interface on Linux as well as on Microsoft Windows development hosts, with options for Ethernet or RS-232 serial communications between the developer workstation and the MAJICMX unit.

 
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