EDN

Debugging the Cortex-M MCU

Debugging embedded software is my least favorite activity, but unfortunately it's a necessary evil. Thankfully, advances in technology and tool chain innovation have resulted in a plethora of ...
EDN

A developer’s insight into ARM Cortex M debugging

A software developer describes tips and tricks for using the built-in debugging options on the ARM Cortex M microcontroller. (Paper from ARM TechCon 2010.) This article is from class ATC-133 at ARM ...
Hackaday

SWO: An ARM Printf By Any Other Name

I’ll confess. Although printf-style debugging has a bad rep, I find myself turning to it on occasion. Sure, printf is expensive and brings in a lot of code, but if you have the space and time to use ...
Embedded

Optimized Embedded Workbench for ARM Cortex-M3

Munich, Germany – IAR has announced the launch of version 5.20 of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM, its integrated development environment (IDE) for building and debugging embedded applications. This ...
Hackaday

swo trace

There are some fairly powerful debugging facilities available on today’s microcontrollers — if your code crashes mysteriously, chances are, there’s a debugging interface that could let you track down ...