Lauterbach's Debuggers Now Feature Support for Cavium OCTEON III Processors

Lauterbach, a manufacturer of complete, modular microprocessor development tools, owns a world-wide sales and support infrastructure and precise engineering and with Lauterbach’s support for the Cavium OCTEON III multicore MIPS64 processor family, Cavium customers are slated to receive compelling hardware and software debug tools for the OCTEON processor.

Lauterbach explained that its TRACE32-ICD supports a wide range of on-chip debug interfaces and the hardware for the debugger is universal and allows interfacing different target processors by simply changing the debug cable and the software. The TRACE32 PowerView software features user-friendly HLL debugger for C and C++ and awareness for Linux RTOS that simplifies debugging from kernel to processes and threads.

With TRACE32 debugger support, developers who build solutions based on OCTEON's MIPS cores will be able to enjoy debug functions such as bootstrap code, interrupt routines, drivers to application software and more. Existing Lauterbach debuggers can also be easily remodeled to support the OCTEON III family of processors.

Some of the notable features of TRACE32 debugger are support for a wide range of on-chip debug interfaces; easy high-level and assembler debugging; interface to all compilers; multiprocessor/multicore debugging; software trace; virtual analyzer; USB, Ethernet or parallel interface; and more.

Officials with Cavium acknowledged that Lauterbach continues to be a key partner for their OCTEON processors. They welcome Lauterbach’s active support for their next generation, OCTEON III product line.

TMCnet reported that the newly released OCTEON III processors provide the most compute power of any standards-based communications processor chip, at 120GHz of 64-bit compute processing per chip and it delivers up to 4X higher application performance than the OCTEON II with significantly superior performance per watt.

The new processors are also dubbed as the first ever SoC to integrate high-performance search processing leveraged from Cavium’s NEURON Search processors along with 5th generation DPI Acceleration which results in lower BOM cost and power.

Recently, Lauterbach provided debugging tools and support for Timesys Embedded Linux and partnered with Mentor Graphics (News - Alert) to deliver hardware-accelerated, software-development and debug platform for the verification of Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) and embedded systems.