Emulator debugs dual-core AMD processors

American Arium has added debug support for the AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Opteron dual-core processors.

American Arium has added debug support for the AMD Athlon 64 X2 and Opteron dual-core processors.

The new chips contain two processors on a single piece of silicon and are designed to improve desktop and server multitasking performance.

Arium's hardware-assisted debug solution comes in the form of the company's ECM-50 emulator and latest SourcePoint flagship debug interface.

"AMD touts the dual-core processor as the hourglass buster, which is an apt way to describe the primary benefit of these Athlons and Opterons", said Jeff Acampora, Vice-President, Arium Sales and Marketing.

"Arium offers what we believe is the definitive debug solution for all X86-based dual-core processors on the market today".

Arium debug tools for AMD's dual-core processors are the ECM-50 coupled with the company's flagship debug interface, SourcePoint 7.1.

Together, they offer outstanding run control, giving the program and firmware developer unsurpassed visibility to and manipulation of code via a series of intuitive screens and dialogs with numerous viewing and customisation options.

The debug solution operates in real time with all core frequencies and works with today's most popular compiler tool chains.

It supports industry-standard input file formats and includes a robust C-like command language.

Dual-core processors are the next evolution of AMD 64's Direct Connect Architecture.

They are designed to deliver the performance of a multicore processor with the same 939-pin infrastructure as the single-core AMD.

The Athlon 64 X2 comes in four flavours featuring two different clock speeds, 2.2 and 2.4GHz, and two L2 cache sizes, 512Kbyte per core and 1Mbyte per core, according to AMD.

Dual-core processing for 32bit applications is available in the Opteron 200 and 800 Series.

The Arium ECM-50 emulator with SourcePoint 7.1 is available now from Logic Technology.

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