Date: 19/09/2011

Wind River's Workbench On-Chip debug tool for Intel arch based embedded sys

Wind River, has introduced a version of JTAG product called Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging optimized for Intel architecture that delivers a debug solution enabling embedded device customers across industries to develop effectively and efficiently for Intel-based embedded platforms.

Highlights of new Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging as per Wind River include:
Solution optimized for embedded Intel processors including Intel Atom, Core and Xeon processors targeted for embedded system development.
Intel architecture views and utilities enable users to quickly assess the state of their platform, monitoring key elements such as descriptor tables, paging tables, virtual to physical memory mapping, PCI bus, and CPU and peripheral registers.
Support for debugging dynamically loaded EFI modules and visibility into UEFI data structures enables developers to customize, optimize and debug boot-loaders, and BIOS.
Serial peripheral interface (SPI) Flash programming streamlines the development process by eliminating the need to use a standalone flash programming tool.

"Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging allows developers deep visiblity into their embedded system during all phases of the development cycle. This is especially essential as systems become more complicated and difficult to debug, necessitating highly tuned, multi-core and OS-aware tools," said Brian Finkel, product line manager for tools at Wind River. "Wind River continues to combine Intel technology within our best-in-class development tools for VxWorks and Wind River Linux run-time platforms and deliver tools that help customers optimize performance, improve developer productivity and shorten time-to-market for their Intel-based projects."

According to Wind River, currently because of increase in integration, multi-core processor adoption and reuse of software components due to this systems are becoming increasingly complex, this creates challenges in diagnosing the cause of hardware and software issues, while Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging adressess these challenges providing visibility into all layers of a system to help pinpoint trouble spots in hardware and software interaction.

Based on the Eclipse platform, Wind River Workbench On-Chip Debugging is a standards-based graphical debugging solution that simplifies the entire embedded development lifecycle and enhances developer efficiency, says Wind River.

For more information visit: www.windriver.com