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new products Scope meets serial data demands LeCroy has introduced a 13 GHz test solution for next generation serial data standards that is made up of the SDA13000 serial data analyzer, the D13000PS active differential probe, and a suite of debug and analysis tools. With a bandwidth of 13 GHz, a sample rate of 40 GS/s, and 100 Mpts/ch memory; LeCroy’s SDA13000 troubleshoots challenging physical layer problems during development. The SDA13000 and D13000PS enable compliance and debug testing on next generation serial data standards covering memory, storage, and computing applications. The computing industry is the primary driver behind the need for faster memory technology, faster disk drive storage, and a faster interconnect technology to link them together. Memory demands have driven transfer rates to 800 MT/s, as provided by DDR II and FB-DIMM. The compliance and debug tests are said to be easy to set up and use with an integrated phase locked loop speciﬁcally for PCI-Express, FB DIMM, and Fibre Channel. The debug tools include an eye violation locator and intersymbol interference plot to understand which bit or bit combination is contributing the most errors. Other tools include periodic jitter breakdown feature to help the engineer understand which frequency is contributing the most periodic jitter to the total jitter. Features such as Eye Doctor, WaveScan and 8b/10b decode and search capabilities further enhance the SDA13000’s serial data solutions. www.lecroy.com IAR Systems updates compiler/debugger IAR Systems has updated its compiler to support needs of enterprise developers with the latest version of IAR Embedded Workbench supporting EABI, Cortex M1 and M3. IAR Embedded Workbench Version 5 compiler and debugger for ARM, has support for the ARM EABI open standard. It supports the ARM9 Cortex-M1 processor, the ﬁrst ARM processor designed speciﬁcally for implementation in ﬁeld-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The Version 5 tool set combines advanced optimizations with an intelligent workﬂow, managed from within a familiar and intuitive user interface. It provides all the beneﬁts of a fully integrated development environment that includes C/C++ compiler, project manager, editor, build tools and the versatile C-SPY debugger. By supporting ARM Embedded Application Binary Interface (EABI), the new Version 5 of IAR Embedded Workbench enables linking of object code from different parties supporting the ARM EABI standard, such as ARM RealView or GNU. This gives IAR Embedded Workbench users access to large projects that require object ﬁle standardization – a feature that will grow in importance as ARM EABI gains acceptance. With IAR Embedded Workbench Version 5 it has also become possible to link to third-party component libraries – a capability that is becoming increasingly important as application complexity and code size increase. With the implementation of ARM EABI the integral C-SPY debugger can now also be used to debug code in ELF/DWARF format from other vendors. In addition IAR Embedded Workbench Version 5 has more than 500 code/project examples for a vast selection of devices and evaluation boards. www.iar.com ARM tool analyzes embedded software ARM’s RealView Proﬁler is a tool speciﬁcally designed to enable nonintrusive analysis of software performance and code coverage of real system workloads running over minutes, hours or days. Using the tool, developers can typically improve the performance of their application by more than 20 percent, while at the same time enabling reduction of the ROM size requirements by a similar amount. The RealView Proﬁler also includes comprehensive analysis of both statement and branch code coverage, enabling software testing to achieve and demonstrate 100 percent code coverage to ensure the highest levels of software validation 42 The RealView Proﬁler is designed to complement ARM’s compilation technology and will drive ARM processor-based devices to new performance levels. Based on the comprehensive ARM debug and trace infrastructure, the RealView Proﬁler delivers insight into the performance of embedded device software. It supports performance analysis from the early stages right until the end of the design cycle, reducing software development project risks. To enable this, the RealView Proﬁler supports both hardware proﬁling, via the new RealView Trace 2 capture unit, and virtual platform proﬁling, via the RealView Real-Time System Models. www.arm.com/realview/proﬁle OCTOBER 2007 | embedded systems design europe | www.embedded.com/europe 042_ESDE.indd 42 11/10/07 14:53:31 http://www.lecroy.com http://www.arm.com/realview/pro http://www.iar.com http://www.embedded.com/europe

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