Power.org Releases Common Debug
Application Programming Interface
Specification
 The
Common Debug API Specification, the third specification released by
the Power.org Common Debug Interface Technical Subcommittee helps simplify
debugging across Power Architecture® product and system development
projects.
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – December 2, 2008
– Power.org, the organization
that promotes and develops standards for Power Architecture® technology,
announced the release of Version 1.0 of the Power.org™ Common Debug
API Specification. The Common Debug Application Programming Interface
(API) Specification will simplify the debugging process by establishing
common ground in communication protocols between development tools and
embedded devices.
“Today almost every device software
development tool on the market has its own method of communicating with
target systems, which often conflict with each other, require individual
setup, configuration and maintenance, or impose all kinds of unnecessary
limitations,” said Power.org Common Debug Interface Technical Subcommittee
Chair, Chris Ng. “The Common Debug API Specification establishes
a set protocol for defining and accessing target services, as well as
an accepted language binding for clients to locate and access services
and for target agents to deploy new services.”
Power.org’s Common
Debug Interface Specification provides a common set of software and
hardware debug interfaces and capabilities for Power Architecture implementations
that lead to lower cost software and hardware debug tools, faster development
time and earlier product availability for virtually any hardware or
software developer working with the Power Architecture technology.
“Even in the days when computer chips were relatively simple,
debugging has never been trivial. Today, SoCs are becoming increasingly
complex with multiple cores and multiple hardware blocks, which has
the potential to make the debugging process extremely difficult and
time-consuming,” said Power.org Marketing Committee Chair Fawzi Behmann.
“Power.org’s debug specifications simplify debugging and reduce the
development time required for Power Architecture-based processors and
systems.”
The Power.org Common Debug Interface Specification
includes a definition of the debug capabilities Power Architecture implementations
should provide and a common set of features, functions and environments
for Power Architecture-based products, including cores, processors and
SoCs. In addition, they define a high speed serial protocol and
physical connection between the debug host and the target, and the application
program interface and communications framework through which the debug
capabilities are accessed and utilized.
The Power.org Common
Debug API Specification, Target Debug Capabilities Specification and
Physical Connection for High-speed Serial Trace Specification can be
downloaded from the Power.org website,
www.power.org/resources/downloads/. For more information on
Power.org and Power Architecture technology, please visit
www.Power.org.
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