| Noral
Micrologics continues the rapid expansion of its FlexTools family of real-time
embedded system development tools with the launch of background debug mode
(BDM) hardware for Motorola's ColdFire® architecture. Fully compatible with Flex, Noral's hardware-independent, high-level Windows debugging software, Flex-BDM/ColdFire greatly simplifies the debugging of applications designed around the ColdFire processor, supporting even the fastest devices. |
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| Motorola's ColdFire
processors combine the architectural simplicity of conventional 32-bit fixed-length
RISC with a memory-saving variable-length instruction set and have been
designed to meet the price/performance requirements of high-performance,
high-volume embedded applications such as mass storage and hard-copy imaging.
The architecture is also ideally suited to the rapidly growing interactive
multimedia markets. Noral's new Flex-BDM/ColdFire utilises the advanced
BDM interface found on every ColdFire processor and fully supports standard and low-voltage ColdFire MCF5202,
MCF5203, MCF5204 and MCF5206 processors. |
| Offering
much of the functionality of more costly in-circuit emulation techniques,
the Flex-BDM/ColdFire hardware allows embedded system developers to address
the complexities of today's MCF52XX designs in the minimum of time. A real-time
"on-the-fly" instruction trace buffer is capable of capturing
more than 64,000 instructions, while real-time hardware breakpoint functionality
features address, data and bus cycle comparators and covers inclusive and
exclusive address ranges. Hardware breakpoint sequencing in real-time further
reduces delays in identifying and rectifying difficult bugs. |
| Flex-BDM/ColdFire
provides real-time TRON (trace on) and TROFF (trace off) control and allows
the reading and writing of memory and special function registers without
breaking execution. An unlimited number of execution breakpoints can be
set and single-step control is also available. The Flex-BDM/ColdFire supports
ColdFire architectures operating at voltages from 2.7 to 5.5V, with connection
to the target being via the standard 26-pin BDM interface. |
| Commenting
on the launch of Flex-BDM/ColdFire, Carrie Richardson, tools development
manager for Motorola's High-Performance Embedded Systems Division, stated:
"Motorola works closely with companies such as Noral to ensure that
the availability of third party design tools coincides with the launch of
new hardware releases. Noral's latest BDM tool offers ColdFire customers
the ability to reduce development times and overall project costs."
ColdFire is a trade mark of Motorola Inc. |
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