Debug has always been a painful and unavoidable part of semiconductor design and, despite many technological advances, it remains one of the dominant tasks in chip development. At one time, most bugs ...

Debugging is pervasive in both computing education and more generally in problem-solving across many disciplines. "Debugging by Design" focuses on the development of debugging for engineering ...

Editor’s Note: Lauro Rizzatti went to Russell Klein, director of engineering at Mentor Graphics and a hardware emulation expert, to learn more about hybrid emulation. This column is co-authored by the ...

If you're like me, debugging is your least favorite part of the product-development cycle. It's a dull chore you have to do after the “real” engineering work—like the algorithm design and the ...

Santa Clara, Calif. — Are the design-for-debug features in reusable cores up to the task for multicore and system-on-chip designs? Not exactly, according to a panel that examined the issue here last ...

Developers are looking to new solutions and approaches to test and debug increasingly complex software without compromising quality or schedules. The old methodologies, based around debugging and ...

The greatest challenge facing embedded system developers is debugging software. Embedded systems have become highly complex, running real-time operating systems, connectivity stacks, USB, and security ...