A Model-Driven Automatically-Retargetable Debug Tool for Embedded Systems

Abstract. Contemporary SoC designs ask for system-level debugging tools suitable to heterogeneous platforms. Such tools will have to rely on some low-level model-driven debugging engine that must be retargetable, since embedded code may run on distinct processors within the same platform. This paper describes a technique for automatically retargeting debugging tools for embedded code inspection. The technique relies on two key ideas: automatic extraction of machinedependent information from a formal model of the processor and reuse of a conventional binary utility package as implementation infrastructure. The retargetability of the technique was experimentally validated for targets MIPS,

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SAMOS
• Authors: Max R. de O. Schultz, Alexandre K. I. Mendonça, Felipe G. Carvalho, Olinto J. V. Furtado, Luiz C. V. dos Santos
• Keywords: Debugging Tools, Low-level Model-driven Debugging, SAMOS 2007, System-level Debugging Tools