System, Software, SoC and Silicon Debug S4D 2009 Conference, Southampton, UK

<strong>Debug</strong> is a critical factor in improving electronic product quality and reducing product delays and covers a wide range of issues; from conceptual performance on system level down to sporadic bugs of the real silicon&#046; These problems are complicated by a variety of requirements for multi&#8211;core SoCs, which introduce many new debug issues related to software and performance concerns&#046; System&#8211;level, SoC&#8211;level, embedded Software and Silicon debug are topics with considerable visibility, due to their importance for improving the maturity and time to market of electronic products&#046; Significant related activity has been focused into standardization of debug oriented interfaces, features and methodologies&#046; As part of a holistic approach to system design, debug methods increasingly facilitate architecture analysis and optimization at many levels of the design process&#046; Debug is also a challenge to for software development and tools to support chips with many cores, and several efforts are ongoing to address development and standardization of the software interfaces used to debug multi&#8211;core applications&#046;