Debug specialist adds support for Xilinx Zynq-7000 family
Development tool specialist Lauterbach has announced support for the Xilinx Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform. While the company's TRACE32 device has been supporting ARM Cortex-A9 cores for some time, this latest enhancement adds the Zynq-7000 family devices to the list of validated target devices. This means TRACE32 now supports all processor cores used with Xilinx' programmable logic parts, including the PowerPC and MicroBlaze. According to the company, any combination of these cores can be debugged concurrently using a single debug interface.
TRACE32 supports all hardware debug features of the Cortex-A9 MPCore processing system and flash programming. Off and on chip real time program trace with sophisticated trace filters and triggers is available. Off chip trace does not use any of the fpga's resources; rather, it stores trace data in up to 4Gbyte of external high speed memory.
"Lauterbach's support of the Zynq-7000 family with the TRACE32 hardware assisted debugging and trace tool allows customers to preserve their design/debug environment while, at the same time, explore the capabilities of the Extensible Processing Platform," said Norbert Weiss, Lauterbach's sales and marketing manager. "Our work with Xilinx builds on years of collaboration between the two companies on fpga based embedded systems development solutions."
