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Signum Systems Announces World’s First 8051 In-Circuit Debugger with
Register Trace
THE ULTIMATE DEBUGGING POWER
FOR TDK SEMICONDUCTOR’S 71M6513 METER DEVICES
MOORPARK, CA AND IRVINE, CA –
September 29, 2004 – Signum Systems Corp. today announced the world’s first
8051 In-Circuit Debugger that can trace in real-time not only the code
execution path, but all internal Special Function Registers (SFR), internal
RAM (IRAM), and external data memory (XDATA). The new ADM-51 In-Circuit
Debugger supports the recently released TDK Semiconductor 71M6513 family
of power meter devices.
"This is the first 8051 emulator able to trace essentially everything that
happens inside an 8051 microcontroller," said Jerry Lewandowski, president
of Signum Systems. "For years, due to the limited number of pins on
microcontrollers, the internal memory and registers were not accessible in
real-time. Now, with the help of TDK, we have added our On-Chip Debug
Logic for the embedded trace to the 8051 MCU and started a new chapter
in the emulation history."
"We are happy to be able to offer our customers the advantages of ADM-51
debugging," said Kourosh Boutorabi, product line manager for metering
products at TDK Semiconductor. "Real-time tracing of the SFRs, IRAM and
XDATA is an important feature to assure firmware quality for TDK’s 71M6513
power meter devices, and we are excited to see Signum Systems supporting
this."
Signum Systems’ proprietary 8051 On-Chip Debug Logic compresses trace
data in real-time and transmits over a 3 or 5 pin bus to the outside. The
high-speed bus is captured and stored in memory. This real-time "capture and
store" process permits software engineers to browse through the saved trace
data to find erratic software behavior such as un-initialized variables,
stack overflows, spurious interrupts, and bad pointers. To reduce the number
of pins a high speed 2-pin synchronous debug channel replaces the typical
5-pin JTAG used on competing devices, which allows Signum’s Windows based
debugger to communicate with the running 8051 core, download application
programs, set breakpoints, and even interrogate the values of the program
counter to graph an execution profile in real-time.
The ADM-51 In-Circuit Debugger together with the On-Chip Debug
Logic technology extends new capabilities to the embedded developer by
providing more detail about the running application in real-time, increases
product quality, shortens debug time, and reduces time to market. The
ADM-51 is available now and comes with Chameleon Debugger. The
On-Chip Debug Logic is available for licensing with sources in Verilog.
For pricing and further information call Signum Systems at (800) 838-8012 or
visit www.signum.com.
About Signum Systems Corp.
Signum Systems (est. 1979) is a leading supplier of software and hardware
development tools for the embedded marketplace and has supported the 8051
microcontrollers with a full line of emulation and debugging products since
1985. Signum supplies In-Circuit Debuggers (ICD), In-Circuit Emulators
(ICE), software debuggers and C compilers to developers of microcontroller,
microprocessor, RISC and DSP-based systems. Signum emulators and debuggers
are sold worldwide and are designed and manufactured entirely in Moorpark,
CA. For more information about Signum Systems and its development solutions,
visit www.signum.com.
About TDK Semiconductor Corp.
TDK Semiconductor, part of $6.2 billion TDK Corporation (NYSE: TDK),
provides advanced analog and mixed-signal integrated circuit products for
consumer, telecom, and industrial applications worldwide. Additional company
and product information can be found at
www.tdksemiconductor.com
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