Arium offers an outstanding debug solution for Linux that delivers seamless debug of the kernel, device drivers, and applications with one set of tools. Users can directly launch from or attach to any task from the debugger interface. Processes and their states are visible in a single table; users can access associated source code simply by clicking on a listed process. Shared libraries can be debugged.

Visibility is immediate from bring-up or reset. A console window is available through the JTAG. No more waiting until a serial or ethernet port is "live". No more waiting for the kernel and console drivers to come up. No more waiting, period.

Arium’s hardware-assisted SourcePoint™ debugger is the company’s flagship software debugger for Intel® Atom™ and ARM7/9/11/Cortex™, XScale, and TI OMAP™ processors. The tool, versatile, customizable, and reliable, offers excellent visibility to c and cc+ and its execution.

Source level debug of a Linux task, including the entire stack

The Linux OS-aware features of SourcePoint reflect a number of important capabilities for users who are working on Linux-based embedded systems. These include:

• Full symbolic, source-level debugging of Linux kernel code, including loadable kernel modules
• Source-level debugging of Linux embedded applications (including shared libraries), the ability to start or stop a Linux process, attach to a process, view source and symbols for a process, and set breakpoints within a process.
• Launch of or attachment to processes with seamless transitions to and from the kernel and each process.
• Specialized breakpoints to stop the execution of a process without stopping the processor or causing it to enter debug mode.
• Flash programming for kernel and file system download.
• Linux console hosting devices from within SourcePoint, eliminating the need for a serial port or video device on the target and simplifying the debugging of "headless” systems.

Features and Benefits

• Kernel debug straight out of reset – an industry first!
• Dynamic debug of loaded Linux kernel modules – another first!
• Application and process debugging with Linux OS awareness for a complete debug solution in one package.
• Linux console output through JTAG port eliminating serial or ethernet port requirement
• Stack trace viewing for quick context information.

Managing Run Control
The key to a successful run control debug strategy lies in the ability to set accurate breakpoints and step through code. SourcePoint offers processor breaks and unlimited soft breaks via intuitive GUIs. Breaks can also be set from the Code window or a command line.

SourcePoint uses the usual stepping commands along with Go and Halt to step through source or assemblylevel code. SourcePoint’s C-like command language includes not only industry standard run control commands, but lets the developer execute loops, use data and array variables, access file I/O, and more. Unlike some command languages, this one does not require the developer to know a two-letter code for each command.

Well designed windows can be opened to view the state of the processor and make modifications to values, including Symbols windows, Registers windows, Memory windows, and user-defined Watch windows. A change in a valuemade in one of these kinds of windows is updated automatically in others. In multi-core environments, developers together or individually can mask processors and start, step, and stop those not masked.

Shortcuts Within Shortcuts
SourcePoint incorporates hundreds of options, commands, and functionalities designed to spur the debug process forward. Windows are designed to be intuitive. They can be docked, floated, or minimized. Commands are available from multiple locations – menu bars, icon bars, context menus, a command line. Symbols and their values are easy to find and change.

Items are grouped logically in intuitive windows and dialog boxes. For example, target configuration op-tions exist under a single view. From the dialog, the memory map of the target can be defined, the type and address range of flash memory devices declared, and target flash operations performed. Target configurations can be loaded from a user’s target database file and saved to SourcePoint and/or the target database file.

SourcePoint offers a number of userdefined options. This includes a window that allows definition of memorymapped I/O devices and related registers and areas of memory in one view. Users can keep track of multiple devices without having to keep multiple views on their screen.

Outstanding Support
American Arium offers exceptional service and support for all of its debug solutions. Highly qualified technical support staff are available during regular working hours, and delays getting to them are minimal. Often they can pinpoint a problem immediately or on review of a dump of the log and project files. Support staff can also troubleshoot particularly difficult problems via WebEx™, an online, interactive solution that lets them see a developer’s code but lets the developer control the session. Additionally, there are downloads and technical documentation available on the Arium Web site.

SourcePoint ships with Arium hardware or separately as an upgrade to previously purchased hardware-assisted solutions. For more information, contact your sales representative or Arium tools distributor or visit our Web site at www.arium.com.

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