Thursday, July 26, 2007
Company Press Release

SOURCE: American Arium

American Arium Delivers Serial Wire Debug with HS-1000S Trace Port Analyzer

New Emulator Designed to Support ARM® CoreSight™ Technology

TUSTIN, CA, Jul. 26, 2007/Market Wire/ -- American Arium, an industry leader in hardware-assisted development tools, today announced the production release of the HS-1000S, the company’s newest trace port analyzer for the ARM market. The emulator supports the latest ARM® Cortex™ cores and features serial wire debug (SWD).

“Serial wire debug is an ARM® CoreSight™ JTAG replacement that uses two wires instead of the five required by JTAG debug. Our customers need SWD as various ARM licensees are adopting the new technology. In response to our customers, we now support it,” said Arium’s CEO Larry Traylor.

The HS-1000S currently supports ARM Cortex™ R4 and M3 cores as well as ARM7™, ARM9™, and ARM11™ devices. Cortex cores are accessed via a DAP (Debug Access Port) that is part of the new ARM debug paradigm.

Serial wire debug provides a debug port for packages with limited pins, such as some microcontrollers, and complex ASICs where pin count negatively affects device cost. SWD replaces the 5-pin JTAG port with a clock plus single bi-directional data pin, providing all the normal JTAG debug and test functionality plus real-time access to system memory without halting the core or requiring any target resident code, according to ARM.

Other key features:

• Enables the debugger to become another AMBA bus master for access to system memory and peripheral or debug registers
• Offers high performance data rates of up to 640 Kbytes at 8 MHz
• Requires no extra power or ground pins
• Offers a small silicon area at 2.5K additional gates

This Arium debug solution delivers reliable run control and ETM (Embedded Trace Macrocell) trace, leading the industry with a 256 MByte buffer and a blazing 680 MS/s capture rate. Developers get unsurpassed visibility to and development of code via a series of intuitive screens and dialogs with numerous viewing and customization options. Together, Arium’s SourcePoint™ debugger and the HS-1000S operate in real time with all core frequencies and work with today's most popular compiler tool chains. The solution supports industry-standard debug file formats and includes a robust C-like command language. The HS-1000S can be used to debug any number of operating systems, including Linux. Overall, Arium debug solutions are designed to minimize the time and stress associated with the debug phase of project development, helping companies get to market faster and with greater ease.

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For more information on Arium products, visit www.arium.com or contact Jeff Acampora, 714-731-1661; jeff_acampora@arium.com.

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