LONDON, Feb. 17, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and Lauterbach, the
leading manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, announce that they are making it easy to use Lauterbach’s popular TRACE32
tools to debug MIPS heterogeneous CPU based systems or systems that combine MIPS CPUs with ARM CPUs. Lauterbach will demonstrate
the solution at the upcoming Embedded World Conference and Exhibition.
Lauterbach’s TRACE32 is a set of modular microprocessor development tools that provides integrated debug
environments for embedded designs. TRACE32 now supports MIPS Release 6 CPUs including the new M-class M6250, the first
embedded-class MIPS CPU to incorporate the MIPS On-Chip Instrumentation (MIPS OCI) flexible on-chip CPU debug architecture.
Companies can use MIPS OCI to ensure the lowest possible risk and impact on their debug process for highly-integrated heterogeneous
SoCs.
Says Norbert Weiss, international sales & marketing manager at Lauterbach: “For many years, Lauterbach has
supported the popular MIPS architectures and cores. With TRACE32®, the developers who are creating products around MIPS have access
to a full range of debug functionality, from bootstrap code to interrupt routines and drivers. Now developers can even use TRACE32®
for designs which combine the MIPS and ARM architectures.”
Says Jim Nicholas, vice president of MIPS business operations, Imagination: “Because so many of our customers use
Lauterbach tools, it’s important that TRACE32 work with MIPS OCI. This new development continues to extend the MIPS ecosystem,
offering designers an even wider choice of leading development tools. The great amount of focus we are putting on continued
development of the MIPS roadmap and ecosystem is enabling potential customers to consider using MIPS CPUs in their systems either
as a supporting controller or to replace an ARM or other CPU in their SoC. We’ve had several customers request the
multi-architecture debug solution.”
Integrated real-time trace stream with cross-triggering
TRACE32 enables simultaneous debug of the multiple CPUs in a design with ‘mixed mode’ trace streams. Users can view
the interleaved results in a single trace window, with a system-level timestamp to help align the streams. Extended trigger logic
enables cross-triggering between the CPU trace logic to make it even easier to debug processor interdependencies.
With its TRACE32 debugger products, Lauterbach provides development tool support for a range of MIPS processors.
For more information on Lauterbach support for MIPS, visit www.lauterbach.com/pro/pro__mips.html.
Demonstration at Embedded World
Attendees can see a demonstration of TRACE32 debugging a ‘mixed mode’ design at the Embedded World Conference and
Exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany, February 23-25, 2016. Visit the Lauterbach booth #4-210.
About TRACE32 Tools
The TRACE32 debug tools provide quick, effective processor debugging through a standard JTAG interface for the entire
debug process, including run control, OS-support, multicore debugging and on-chip trace. These tools can be connected to the hosts
via USB 3.0 or fast Ethernet ports. The included TRACE32 PowerView software provides an efficient and user-friendly high-level
language (HLL) debugging for C and C++.
The trace tools of TRACE32 connect to the integrated trace port on the target cores and records program flow
information directly from the core in real time. This recording provides the developer with fast and logical troubleshooting
capabilities to detect complex errors that only occur under run-time conditions. In addition the time-stamped program flow can be
analyzed to provide an overall view of the system performance as well as quality assurance features such as code coverage and cache
analysis.
About MIPS CPUs
MIPS CPUs comprise a comprehensive portfolio of low-power, high-performance microprocessor IP cores and
architectures, ranging from solutions for high-end applications processing down to solutions for extremely small, deeply embedded
microcontrollers. MIPS CPUs power billions of products around the globe. The 64-bit MIPS architecture is widely deployed in a large
number of products, and is supported by a vibrant and growing ecosystem, built over more than 20 years.
About Lauterbach
Lauterbach is the leading manufacturer of complete, modular and upgradeable microprocessor development tools
worldwide with experience in the field of embedded designs since 1979. It is an international, well-established company with blue
chip customers in every corner of the globe and has a close working relationship with all semiconductor manufacturers. At the
headquarters in Höhenkirchen, near Munich, the engineering team develops and produces highly proficient and specialized Development
Tools, which are utilized all over the world under the brand TRACE32®. Own branch offices exists in United Kingdom, Italy, France,
Tunisia, on the East and West coasts of the United States, Japan and China. Highly qualified sales and support engineers are also
available in many other countries. For more information visit http://www.lauterbach.com.
About Imagination Technologies
Imagination is a global technology leader whose products touch the lives of billions of people across the globe. The
company’s broad range of silicon IP (intellectual property) includes the key processing blocks needed to create the SoCs (Systems
on Chips) that power all mobile, consumer and embedded electronics. Its unique software IP, infrastructure technologies and system
solutions enable its customers to get to market quickly with complete and highly differentiated SoC platforms. Imagination’s
licensees include many of the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturers, network operators and OEMs/ODMs who are creating some of
the world’s most iconic products. See: www.imgtec.com.
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Imagination Technologies’ Press Contacts: UK: David Harold david.harold@imgtec.com +44 (0)1923 260 511 USA: Jen Bernier-Santarini jen.bernier@imgtec.com +1 408-530-5178 Lauterbach Press Contact: Evi Ederer evi.ederer@lauterbach.com