Re: Debugging: Am I a dreamer. . . ?

On 2008-04-30, Chris H <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In message <L9-dnZFHX8O064XVnZ2dnUVZ_o_inZ2d@visi>, Grant Edwards
<grante@xxxxxxxx> writes
On 2008-04-30, Chris H <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It is called a bond out chip.

Used by Emulator manufacturers. Been around years

And it's been extinct for years (none of the processors I've
used in the past decade have had bond out parts or real
in-circuit-emulators available.

Then you are looking an a small market.

Obviously, since I doubt it's possible for anybody to use a
significant portion of the parts on the market.

Many parts still have ICE.

Right, but it sure seems to be getting pretty rare.

There are also chips with Jtag and or BDM or Nuxus or ...

That's about as good as it gets these days.

Not exactly that is about to change.

If you like a Second generation JTAG+ Trace that is closer to
ICe functionality.

At the last embedded systems conference I went to, a lot of
vendors were flogging the JTAG-based trace stuff, and it sure
would be nice. I've got a real-time state-machine problem I'm
trying to fix right now and if I could get a timestamped trace
of writes to a couple addresses, it probably would have been
fixed a week ago. :/

But, none of the parts I've ever used supported anything other
than the basic "halt the processor and examine the state" JTAG
interfaces. Maybe I'm just not spending enough money on
processors.

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