using hardware tricks to trace program flowStuart R BallIf your embedded system is too small to provide even a trace buffer or a serial port as debugging aids, you can use a variety of hardware tricks ...

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JTAG (jay-tag) is one of the engineering acronyms that has been transformed into a noun, although arguably it is not so popular as RAM, or CPU. IEEE Std 1149.1-1990 IEEE Standard Test Access Port and ...

If you’ve got a minute, you’ve got enough time to find bugs in your Ruby on Rails-based Web application. It’s not because you’re necessarily oh so adept at debugging your own code (though you may be), ...

PITTSBURGH -- Computer bugs, or errors in software, can mess up just about anything: They've been blamed for missing homework, blackouts, prison breaks and even the loss of multimillion-dollar space ...

If you have ever tried to debug optimized code, you probably realized that it can be a frustrating experience. Without optimizations, your debugger is a reliable assistant, precisely following every ...

The engineers and designers at Raspberry Pi have this week launched a new piece of hardware in the form of the plug and play Raspberry Pi Debug Probe which is now available to purchase priced at just ...

Researchers have used the Stack Trace Analysis Tool, a highly scalable, lightweight tool to debug a program running more than one million MPI processes on the IBM Blue Gene/Q-based Sequoia ...