(openPR) - OCD for Manufacturing and Test Simplifies, Shortens, and Improves Device Debugging

Wind River announced the availability of Wind River On-Chip Debugging for Manufacturing and Test, a standards-based offering that allows test and manufacturing engineers the ability to diagnose hardware problems on the manufacturing floor. This solution enables manufacturing organizations to increase production line throughput, validate and verify finished products more effectively, reduce scrap and rework, and easily create custom test applications for their individual needs. Furthermore, OCD for Manufacturing and Test complements and extends an organization’s existing investment in tools such as boundary scanners, logics analyzers and oscilloscopes.

Wind River On-Chip Debugging for Manufacturing and Test combines the on-chip debugging-based development solutions with specific test and manufacturing tooling and pre-integration with the National Instruments (NI) LabVIEW platform and development environment. It includes Wind River ICE and Wind River Probe emulator products, Wind River On-Chip Debugging API and Utility JTAG testing solution, and the NI LabVIEW Virtual Instrument Driver. When used collectively, the solution enables manufacturing organizations to streamline the testing process in manufacturing because the device under test (DUT) does not have to be fully operational, to shorten the manufacturing debug process through target CPU and memory subsystem analysis and debugging, and to simplify the creation of elaborate test and automation systems, reducing test/manufacturing costs and improving manufacturing cycle time.

Specific enhancements to the Wind River On-Chip Debugging Utility in this release include the Memory Upload Utility and Enhanced Virtual Instruments Support. The Memory Upload Utility allows developers to select a specific area of memory on the target and extract data into a file saved in the Host PC file system. This feature allows test and manufacturing engineers to load and run test scripts on their targets, capture the results stored in specific areas of memory and store the results for future reference and analysis. Wind River has further enhanced the integration of the On-Chip Debugging API with National Instruments LabVIEW through the creation of “Higher-Level” Virtual Instruments (VIs). These new VIs enable LabVIEW users to more easily create their own custom test applications.

Wind River On-Chip Debugging for Manufacturing and Test is available today. It supports a wide range of processors and architectures:

• Broadcom Sibyte: BCM1125, 1125H, 1250, 1255, 1280, 1455
• Intel XScale: IOP 342
• Freescale: MPC8641D Rev 2.0
• PA Semi: PA6T-1682M
• ARM: ARM Thumb 2, Cortex M3, and SOCs from Freescale and ATMEL
• CF: SoCs from Freescale
• MIPS: SoCs from Broadcom
• Power: PA Semi PA6T-1682M
• PowerPC: SoCs from Freescale and AMCC
• XScale: SoCs from Intel

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