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Multi-Processor Debugging Effort

As it was said on September, 6, Analog Devices Inc., NEC Electronics Corp., Tensilica, and Texas Instruments Inc. have joined the Nexus 5001 Forum, a 22-company effort to address multi-processor debugging of embedded systems through adoption of the Nexus standard. The Nexus standard is an embedded processor development tool interface whose aim is to help design engineers quickly identify software- and hardware-level problems in real time. Nexus is the only open debugging standard available today.

By using a standard debug protocol available from multiple chip makers, companies can reduce time and expense when migrating between architectures. Ron Stence, leader of Nexus 5001 Forum and a senior systems engineer at Freescale Semiconductor Inc. said: "The ability to have real-time visibility and control of multiple embedded processor cores is only one area that the Nexus Forum has been striving for since its beginning".

Nexus, the group said, allows re-use of development tools and directly supports multi-core embedded processors. Use of the standard enables engineers and programmers to find and fix problems with their systems using emulators, debuggers, logic analyzers, hardware-in-the-loop and workstations to control embedded processors in real time.