Embedded Systems Design Europe - November 2007 - (Page 40) new products ICE supports Renesas M16C Next microcontrollers Renesas Technology’s E100 is a fullspec in circuit emulator which initially supports the company’s M16C Next family with support for other 8 to 32bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microcontroller series to follow. The E100 emulator comprises a body that is common to all Renesas’ microcontroller series together with a series-specific MCU unit. Debugging functions, common to each microcontroller series, are provided as standard in the emulator body. An exchangeable MCU unit that differs for each microcontroller series is housed in the emulator body. This enables an H8S family, H8SX family, or other microcontroller series to be supported simply by changing the MCU unit. The ability to accommodate a change of target microcontroller, simply by purchasing an additional MCU unit after the initial emulator purchase, allows a range of development environments to be supported with the minimum of additional cost. The graphical user interface (GUI) has been designed with the aim of simplifying ease of use for first-time users. This GUI enables complex settings, such as those for break condition combinations, trace condition specifications, and repeated-routine execution time measurement conditions, to be implemented using a visual, drag-anddrop approach. A clear and straightforward display of related functions is provided, such as implementation of a building to actual-system debugging under a powerful project management system. The E100 Emulator incorporates resources for debugging use. These include the provision of 4-Mcycle largecapacity trace memory, a 16-kbyte real-time RAM monitor facility, a 16channel event detection system, 4096 software breakpoints, 2-Mbyte-address range coverage memory, and 32 input external-trigger function. Such resources simplify the understanding of debugging contents and detection of problem points, helping to significantly shorten a user’s debugging time. A Windows compatible PC is used as the host computer, connected via a USB 2.0 (High Speed) interface allowing high-speed serial communication. The emulator uses no hazardous substances in either its hardware components or packaging, and is an environment-friendly product using RoHS compliant materials. At the same time as initial shipments of an MCU unit for the M16C/64 group, Renesas Technology is commencing the development and commercial production of MCU units to support other Renesas 8 to 32-bit CISC microcontroller series. www.eu.renesas.com screen display associated with function execution history when referencing trace information. It is also possible to link the E100 Renesas Technology’s Embedded Workshop integrated development environment. This allows debugging to be performed efficiently by carrying out various tasks from coding and Altium adds LatticeSC/M support to Designer tool Altium has added support in Altium Designer for the LatticeSC and LatticeSCM (collectively, the LatticeSC/M) families of high-performance FPGA devices. Developers using the Altium Designer environment can now target designs for LatticeSC/M devices with full synthesis support. The range of presynthesized, ready-to-use FPGA-based components that come standard with Altium Designer, including high-level processor and peripheral cores, can be used to develop complete systems on the high-performance LatticeSC/M 40 FPGAs. The unified Altium Designer system also supports the development of systems right through to board design and production within the same environment. Electronics designers can target any supported device during development, eliminating the need to change development platforms or purchase additional software and specific device support modules. Altium Designer’s unified design environment also allows designers to retarget the programmable elements of a design to a range of different proces- sor platforms, both FPGA-hosted and discrete, during development without significant software or hardware rework. LatticeSC/SCM-based daughter boards for Altium’s Desktop NanoBoard reconfigurable hardware platform are currently in development. The Desktop NanoBoard provides a vendor-neutral development platform that features plug-in FPGA daughter boards to house the target devices, as well as interchangeable peripheral boards. www.altium.com NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2007 | embedded systems design europe | www.embedded.com/europe 040_ESDE.indd 40 8/11/07 13:34:11 http://www.eu.renesas.com http://www.altium.com http://www.embedded.com/europe
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