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Re:GDB and ARM Multi-Ice JTAG emulator
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- Subject: Re:GDB and ARM Multi-Ice JTAG emulator
- From: cyril dot germond at philips dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 09:03:08 +0200
Actually, there are a few precisions I forgot to submit.
Multi-Ice is said to be compatible with RDI 1.51 compliant debuggers.
The way it works is the following :
- The hardware is connected to a MS-Windows based PC, on a parallel port
- on this *host* PC, a SW component, called Muli-Ice server, must be running
- on a second computer (Windows, Solaris, HP-UX and maybe Linux, but it could also be the *host* PC), another SW component called MultiIce.dll
is used to control the HW, via a TCP/IP connection to the Multi-Ice server.
It is quite not simple...
Do you think it could fit the way gdb works ?
By the way, I agree that *closed* systems are not the best.
But Multi-Ice devices have also a major advantage : it supports a wider range of cores than the Jeeni, for example.
Also, used with ARM debuggers, there are nice features that are not (for the moment ?) in gdb : access to the hardware without any debugging frame (no need to load anything to access registers, memory, ...), dumping/filling memory from/to file,...
Regards,
Cyril Germond
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