On the first anniversary of its acquisition of LDRA, TASKING, a global leader in high-performance embedded software development tools, announced the availability of its TASKING toolchain. With the ...

The ability to display up to ten eye diagrams simultaneously provides a high-level view of system performance during system bring-up. The multi-measurement scenario analysis capability easily lends ...

You all write code and then toil to makeit work. You build it, and then you fixit. Testing is an afterthought—somethingyou do after you write the code.You spend about half your time in ...

Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

Troubleshooting communications test systems can be made easier if the hardware and software development are separated from each other. Problems can be more readily found and corrected by following ...

In increasingly complex SoC designs, many of which contain multiple cores and multiple modes, determining best practices for testing and debugging is a moving target. Jason Andrews, architect at ...

Visual Studio provides a rich set of tools for finding bugs, though most developers aren't aware or don't take advantage of all of them. Bugs occur at two stages in a code's life: during development ...

There’s an old saying about simulation: “It’s all about the need for speed.” Simulation is the core technology for functional verification of semiconductors, and the demand for higher runtime ...

Wind River on-chip debugging (OCD) for manufacturing and test combines a number of elements, including National Instruments’ LabVIEW to let test and manufacturing engineers diagnose hardware problems ...