pls presents new Universal Emulation Configurator (UEC) for On-Chip-Emulators

Hardware independent Configuration Tool simplifies Logic Programming
for Filtering of Trace Data

Lauta, February 2006 - The Universal Emulation Configurator (UEC) from pls
Programmierbare Logik & Systeme now for the first time provides designers with
a configuration tool for sophisticated measurement tasks with on-chip-
emulators, which allows functional description of tasks on the basis of a state-
machine, independent of the actual target or emulator hardware. By assembling
predetermined, parameter adjustable partial tasks from extendable libraries,
complex analysing jobs can be defined with the UEC on a high abstraction level
in an utmost quick and easy way. In order to ensure a highest possible degree
of freedom for the user in the description of his analysis task, the Universal
Emulation Configurator offers various interfaces, which are hierarchically
positioned upon each other. As a first stage an assembler-like so-called Trace
Qualification Language (TQL) serves as an adaptor layer between the hardware
independent upper layers and the emulation hardware itself. The Notation of
the second stage is leaning on the syntax of C. The language designated as
High Level TQL (HTQL) allows the user to edit an abstract description even
without detailed knowledge of the hardware resources. The trace job is
described by simple conditional trace tasks or by a state machine respectively.
So even more complex debug jobs can be set up in a relatively easy way.  The
third stage, which is the actual user interface, consists of a mask-based,
block-oriented editor. As front end it is building on the HTQL compiler and
generates the appropriate HTQL code from a measuring task assembled from
predefined components.  The individual components, which contain frequently
used measuring tasks, definitions and basic elements for the description of
state-machines, are summarized in libraries, which can be extended
indefinitely or supplemented by the user's own elements. The XML data format
ensures a high degree of modularity, flexibility and usability on top of all. 

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pls Programmierbare Logik & Systeme

The pls Programierbare Logik & Systeme GmbH located in Lauta, Germany, was
founded in 1990 by Thomas Bauch and Stefan Weiße. The company is among the
worldwide leading suppliers of software debugging solutions and complete
development tools for the 16 and 32-bit microcontroller family from Infineon
technologies, STMicroelectronics, and ARM. The revolutionary software
architecture of the Universal Debug Engine (UDE) is optimized for debugging of
modern SoC based Systems. The hardware family Universal Access Device (UAD)
opens up a fully new dimension in data download speeds with transfer rates of
up to 3.5Mbyte/s. More information can be found at www.pls-mc.com 

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