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31 Jan 2007

RealView Microcontroller Development Kit supports ETM Trace with Signum JTAGjet-Trace

Signum Systems have announced the immediate availability of real-time trace support in the ARM^® RealView^® Microcontroller Development Kit using the Signum JTAGjet-Trace in-circuit debugger.

The Signum JTAGjet-Trace is a real-time, transparent in-circuit debugger which supports all ARM7™ and ARM9™ processor-based devices equipped with the Embedded Trace Macrocell™(ETM™) at speeds of up to 400 MHz. It is available with real-time trace buffer sizes of 256K, 1M, 2M and 4M frames, each frame is time-stamped enabling CPU cycle accuracy.

ETM allows detailed program execution to be recorded and saved in real time to be later displayed within a new µVision^® debugger trace window allowing detailed analysis of program path and variable values, which are both indispensible in locating even the most elusive software bugs.

ETM trace is becoming popular in new ARM processor-based MCU devices from vendors such as NXP (LPC2xxx) and STMicroelectronics (STR9x), this additional support by Keil and Signum allows developers to make use of the latest technology and accelerate their project development.

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 ARM processor cores with emulation and debugging products since 2001. Signum supplies full-featured JTAG-based emulators, in-circuit emulators (ICE), 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 the USA (Moorpark, California). For more information about Signum Systems and its development solutions, visit www.signum.com.