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Article: Instruments spur RISC into the real-time race: RISC hardware debug tools. (in-circuit emulators and logic analyzers for reduced-instruction-set computer-based real-time systems; includes related article on RISC debugging)
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- October 1, 1990
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Instruments spur RISC into the real-time race
Most applications for RISC (reduced-instruction-set computer) [microprocessors] have been in computers and workstations, but embedded real-time systems based on RISC processors are starting to proliferate. Debugging embedded systems--in particular, exorcising the time-critical hardware/software interactions that cause them to misbehave--is distinctly different from debugging a workstation. Often, the software-based debugging tools useful for debugging a computer won't work in real time, so they can't handle the whole task of debugging an embedded system. Designers of RISC-based systems no longer need to depend solely ...