using hardware tricks to trace program flowStuart R BallIf your embedded system is too small to provide even a trace buffer or a serial port as debugging aids, you can use a variety of hardware tricks ...

Key Takeaways Reproducing errors consistently makes analyzing and fixing issues easier and more structured.Tools like debuggers, logs, and performance monitors ...

Originally published in the November 1988 Embedded Systems Programming magazine. Correction is the final step of any debugging exercise. Sometimes bug eradication is straightforward; sometimes a bug ...

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PITTSBURGH -- Computer bugs, or errors in software, can mess up just about anything: They've been blamed for missing homework, blackouts, prison breaks and even the loss of multimillion-dollar space ...

As many kernel developers and hackers have known for years, loadable/unloadable kernel modules (like user-space applications) are almost never bug-free. With the continuing use and development of ...

JTAG (jay-tag) is one of the engineering acronyms that has been transformed into a noun, although arguably it is not so popular as RAM, or CPU. IEEE Std 1149.1-1990 IEEE Standard Test Access Port and ...