Debug tools support royalty free 32bit processors
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Software development tools company, Lauterbach, has announced support for a number of new microprocessors including the Beyond BA22 range of microprocessor cores.
The range is designed to be a fast, compact, power saving implementation of a modern 32bit risc architecture. Lauterbach's TRACE32 tools provide BA22 processor debugging through a standard JTAG interface for the entire debug process, including code download, flash programming and source code debugging.
"Customers are building increasingly complex applications around our BA22 processors, and need more advanced software debug tools with operating system awareness," said Matjaz Breskvar, chief executive officer of Beyond Semiconductor. "We're excited that they can now choose proven Lauterbach TRACE32 tools to shorten their software development cycle, even to debugging multiprocessor/ multicore systems with mixed Beyond and 3rd party cpu cores."
German based Lauterbach had a global turnover in excess of $90million during 2011 and the company's tools support more than 3500 microprocessors and all known ARM Cores, covering products from more than 75 silicon companies.
"With TRACE32, the growing number of developers using BA22 now have access to a full range of debug functionality, from bootstrap code to interrupt routines and drivers," said Norbert Weiss, international sales and marketing manager at Lauterbach. "Lauterbach is committed to continue bringing additional features and future extensions to customers using Beyond Semiconductor BA22 family of processors."
Lauterbach's tools can be connected to either Windows or Linux hosts via USB 2.0 or Ethernet 10/100/1000 ports. The included TRACE32 PowerView software provides a high level language debugger for C and C++, as well as Linux operating system awareness.
The Beyond BA22 configurable processor IP family extends from deeply embedded cpus ideal for demanding, ultra low power SoC designs, up to high performance application processor cores running operating systems such as Linux. According to Lauterbach, the BA22 is an excellent replacement for 8bit 8051 cpus while also providing a competitive long term upgrade path for system designers.
Lauterbach has also announced support for the Cavium OCTEON III Multicore MIPS64 processor family and the XMC4000 microcontroller family of Infineon Technologies.
