Debugging Embedded and Real-Time Systems: The Art, Science, Technology, and Tools of Real-Time System Debugging

Debugging Embedded and Real-Time Systems: The Art, Science, Technology and Tools of Real-Time System Debugging gives a unique introduction to debugging skills and strategies for embedded and real-time systems. Practically focused, it draws on application notes and white papers written by the companies who create design and debug tools.

Debugging Embedded and Real Time Systems presents best practice strategies for debugging real-time systems, through real-life case studies and coverage of specialized tools such as logic analysis, JTAG debuggers and performance analyzers. It follows the traditional design life cycle of an embedded system and points out where defects can be introduced and how to find them and prevent them in future designs. It also studies application performance monitoring, the execution trace recording of individual applications, and other tactics to debug and control individual running applications in the multitasking OS.

Suitable for the professional engineer and student, this book is a compendium of best practices based on the literature as well as the author’s considerable experience as a tools’ developer.

Provides a unique reference on Debugging Embedded and Real-Time SystemsPresents best practice strategies for debugging real-time systemsWritten by an author with many years of experience as a tools developerIncludes real-life case studies that show how debugging skills can be improvedCovers logic analysis, JTAG debuggers and performance analyzers that are used for designing and debugging embedded systems

1. What’s the Problem?
2. A Systematic Approach to Debugging
3. Best practices for Debugging Software
4. Best practices for Debugging Hardware
5. In HW/SW Integration Phase
6. An Overview of the Tools for Embedded Design and Debug
7. Systems-on-Chip (FPGAs with embedded cores)
8. Using On-Chip Debug Resources
9. Testing Methods for Isolating Defects
10. Defects in Real-time systems
11. Debugging Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
12. Serial communications systems
13. Networked systems
14. Memory Systems
15. The Future