In my last post I introduced the debugging challenges during porting, or developing native code, for Android. This time I would like to outline how virtual prototypes can enable software debugging and ...

Battery life has become theAchilles heel for the success of mobile software platforms, such as Android.The mileage users can get from their battery is severely impacted by software.Software implicitly ...

As designs continue to grow in size and complexity, that complexity has led to an increasing number of processing cores. Additional cores, in turn, allow for additional software to be run on those ...

An SOC (system on chip) includes many components, such as processors, timers, interrupt controllers, buses, memories, and embedded software. It is a complete system that designers a few years back ...

Modern trace and debugging techniques. IDEs to use for trace and debugging. In computer programming and software development, engineers will deploy debugging tools and processes to find and mitigate ...

Editor’s Note: Lauro Rizzatti went to Russell Klein, director of engineering at Mentor Graphics and a hardware emulation expert, to learn more about hybrid emulation. This column is co-authored by the ...