PRIDE™ for developing and debugging applications software |
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Several embedded solutions are available for partaking in the most appropriate station for development and debug of application programs. PRIDE is a family of solutions standing for Panoply for Retargeting under an Integrated Development Environment.
Experience shows that the major cost for developing worthwhile applications is due to the engineering time spent at debugging. Developers of application programs are invited to have a careful look at the solutions enabling to accelerate and secure their work: hundreds of thousands Euro are at stake! As a result, a solution enabling to accelerate the MCU program code development is necessary to reduce costs and time-to-market.
Dolphin’s microcontroller family is supported by this complete panoply of solutions for an accurate control of program execution and a deep analysis of the internal status of the SoC. They partake in powerful stations for debugging the application programs embedded in RAM/Flash… on SoC or on PCB.
Key Benefits
A complete suite to address all customer requirements:
from low cost to fully featured
with small silicon area with off-line tracing of executed program versus real-time probing of internal signals
Capability for emulating a MIXED SIGNAL SoC: it enables to start software development months ahead availability of hardware prototype of the SoC.
Safe Acceleration of the Time-to-Fab by accelerating a thorough debug of the application program.
Solutions based on industry-standard IDE (Keil™ µVision and Raisonance RIDE)
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Virtual Clone
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BIRDOwl
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BIRD
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SUCCESS
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| Tiny |
Advanced |
| Debug solution |
external debugger |
Built-In Real-time Debugger |
simulation |
| Silicon Area * |
0.012 mm²
(1.6 kgates) |
0.03 mm²
(4 Kgates) |
0.02 mm²
(2.7 kgates) |
0.06 mm²
(8 kgates) |
Only software |
| Real-Time emulation |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
| Breakpoints |
Yes, unlimited |
Yes |
Yes, unlimited |
Yes, unlimited |
| Watchpoints |
Yes, unlimited |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Yes, unlimited |
Trace memory location
Trace size |
In the IDE debugger
Unlimited |
No |
No |
On SoC memory
Up to 1k record |
In the IDE debugger
Unlimited |
| Real-time trace |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
No |
| Discovery |
Presentation sheet |
Available |
Available |
Available |
Available |
| Assessment |
Discover and Buy |
Available |
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Available |
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| Evaluation |
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Available |
(*) slow case conditions - TSMC 0.18 µm process (1.62 V, 125°C) - using SESAME uHD library, without Scan - after synthesis
Equivalent gate counts above and under are given for a NAND2D1 gate of 7.526 µm2 in TSMC 0.18 µm process.
A complete set of software solutions (ISS, C Compiler, debugger…) enables the application program developer to finalize debugging prior to availability of the SoC, thus accelerating SoC check-out with bug-free applications
To evaluate our BIRD emulation solution, we provide for free a Discover and Buy kit. Our Discover and Buy kit provides you a concrete experience of the test program in three steps only!
RIDE From  | µVision From 
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