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News Release from: Wind River Systems | Subject: Workbench 2.6.1 OCD
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 April 2007
Workbench makes the most of modern
hardware
Upgraded development toolset offers multicore device developers a more fully supported, standards-based development environment.
Wind River has announced enhancements to Wind River Workbench 2.6.1 On-Chip Debugging Edition, the company's comprehensive device software development toolset for mitigating the complexities of on-chip debugging The upgraded Wind River Workbench, OCD Edition, provides a development toolset that does not require kernel instrumentation to debug the Linux kernel and user applications, and will also offer multicore device developers a more fully supported, standards-based development environment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Wind River understands the unique and often times, frustrating difficulties device developers face when debugging 32 and 64bit device projects", said Sandy Orlando, Vice President and General Manager of Wind River On-Chip Debugging.
"With the newly upgraded Workbench toolset for on-chip debugging, Wind River will offer customers a rich set of Eclipse-based development tools that allow them to harness the full advantages today's hardware innovations offer, including multicore and multiprocessing technologies".
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Customers will now be able to debug up to eight devices simultaneously and share a single ICE unit across networks of multiple developers on a broad range of new multicore processors.
Wind River Workbench for On-Chip Debugging provides developers with the ability to debug the Linux kernel, user applications and shared libraries, without requiring kernel instrumentation.
Workbench OCD enables developers to see both system and user application contexts when debugging in Linux and eases debugging of system-application interaction issues.
Workbench OCD, an industry-leading Eclipse-based JTAG development environment for hardware bring-up through application development, provides additional plugins to Eclipse in the form of new "views" targeted at improving the Eclipse development environment for device software developers and initial hardware bring-up.
"Two essential elements that enable developers to fully harness the performance benefits of multicore technologies are quality tools and well-designed devices", said Jeff Timbs, Marketing Director for Freescale Semiconductor's Networking Systems Division.
"Wind River's ICE solution and Workbench for On-Chip Debugging multicore development are quality tools that speed and simplify the creation of world class products based on advanced multicore platforms from Freescale, including our MPC8641D and MCP8572 chips".
Among new workbench Eclipse plug-in "view" features, a quick target launch utility enables device software developers to easily define cross-target launches.
Developers select from a list of predefined launches, either taking control of an already running target or starting a target from reset, which results in the user quickly moving from target launch selection to debugging complex hardware and software problems.
A launch configuration utility provides a more efficient and streamlined workflow by guiding developers through an intuitive workflow, stepping through the required configuration options to correctly set up devices.
Developers can move readily from one area of the configuration utility to another, only configuring areas that pertain to their device.
A new binary upload utility enables developers to graphically select an area of memory on their device, including sectors of Flash, and upload the image into a file on their host PC.
The file can then be stored, compared with other files, or used in other areas of development.
And a compare utility allows developers to easily compare a selected area of memory on their device with a file on the host PC or network.
Any differences between the files will be displayed graphically in the Workbench editor view.
This feature can be used to help identify differences between the images.
"The new 'view' features and enhanced capabilities in Wind River Workbench for On-Chip Debugging helped us to develop our multicore processor boards faster and more efficiently", said Lynn Patterson, Vice President and General Manager of Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing's Modular Solutions group.
"By utilising Workbench OCD, we saved valuable development time and resources while still providing seamless support for our operating system and application layer requirements".
"As developers migrate to the new multicore system-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms, they will need a comprehensive tool set that provides them with the ability to not only develop the software that will run on these complex platforms, but also delivers robust defect resolution capabilities".
Wind River Workbench, On-Chip Debugging Edition, supports a wide range of processors and operating systems.
Wind River is expanding its support for multicore devices with the support of the following processors: Broadcom Sibyte BCM1125, 1125H, 1250, 1255, 1280 and 1455; Intel XScale IOP 342; Freescale: MPC8641D Rev 2.0; and PA Semi PA6T-1682M.
Additionally, Wind River is continuing its investment in support of the major device software architectures, including: ARM Thumb 2, Cortex M3 and SOCs from Freescale and Atmel; ColdFire SoCs from Freescale; MIPS SoCs from Broadcom; PA Semi PA6T-1682M; PowerPC SoCs from Freescale and AMCC; and XScale SoCs from Intel.
Supported operating systems include Wind River's industry-leading VxWorks and Linux, in addition to kernel.org Linux and Express Logic's ThreadX.
Other commercial operating systems and in-house proprietary operating systems can be integrated by Wind River Professional Services.
Wind River Workbench 2.6.1, OCD Edition is sold under Wind River's Enterprise and Licensing Business Models.
There are various hardware, software and bundle options available.
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