Owing to the enormous popularity of the ARM cores, with 77 licensees shipping over 420 million ARM powered devices in 2001, the ARM on-chip debug facilities merit closer examination.
This paper looks at the run-time control debug features provided ARM cores.
ARM have also developed a core extension called the Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) which provides for the provision of compressed program and data trace information via a narrow port.
preview:
http://www.ashling.com/technicalarticles/ARMDebugv10.pdf
11/26/2003
