Universal Debug Engine - High Level Language Debugger Tool

UDE - Universal Debug Engine - is the state-of-the-art development workbench for application development with the C166, C166CBC, C166S V2, ST10, XC166, XC2000, XE166, TriCore, PowerPC, ST30, STR7, ARM7, ARM9, ARM11 and XScale microcontrollers family.

With UDE you can organize your projects, it supports you while building applications and you can run and test your software in a convenient and cost-efficient way.
UDE stands quintessentially for new debugger architecture and tool concept based on a customizable set of standard components and core specific add-ons.

It offers a collection of tools including source file management, project building and powerful HLL debugger with various high-speed communication paths to the customer's hardware target system with target monitor. All components work together in an optimized manner.

UDE as a part of the package is a powerful HLL debugger to test microcontroller applications created in C/C++ language and/or Assembly. Together with the Universal Access Device, the communication add-on of UDE and the possible used target monitor it offers realtime execution between breakpoints on the customer's target system.

The profit is on you when using the Integrated Development Environment with integrated tools. There is just one Graphical User Interface for Development, Debugging and Emulation. Multiple high-speed interfaces allow a very flexible target system access.

The Universal Debug Engine is an open platform offering different interfaces to other tools. Optionally, it can be feature-enhanced by the following components that can be included into the workbench:

Evaluation Boards from different vendors for a quick start with new C166, ST10, XC166, XC2000, XE166, TriCore, PowerPC, ARM7, ARM9, ARM11 and XScale derivatives.
Portable Monitor Development Kit to use the UDE debugger on any application specific hardware.
CASE Tool with interface to debugger Universal Debug Engine supporting Enhanced Nassi-Shneidermann-Charts - a great help for reengineering, maintenance and program documentation.
Real-Time Operating Systems with detailed support within the debugger Universal Debug Engine to use reliable software components for standard programming tasks.

UDE runs under Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.

User Definable Enhancements

Being an integrated part of UDE, the open interface for User Definable Enhancements enables you to easily create completely new types of applications:

HTML Scripts based on standard UDE ActiveX Control and customer-specific controls together with PERL and JAVA scripts provide fully customized hardware visualization and control.
The Automation Interfaces of the UDE components even allow using basic UDE services for controlling the debugger and processing target communication, program flow control and symbol processing by external C/C++, VisualBasic and VBA applications.
Substitution of the standard UDE desktop client by a customized desktop to fit the requirements of service tools, Matlab or another third-party tool integration by using the COM interface.

Unrivalled Flexible Target System Access

DAP – the 2- or 3-wire debug interface for TriCore AUDO Future and other upcoming devices is supported.
JTAG OCDS L1 and EmbeddedICE are fully supported by UDE offering direct high-speed access to the MCU's internal units and features like breakpoints, stepping in ROM/FLASH as well as complex trigger conditions without any external hardware or software resources.
OCDS L2 trace and ETM trace support allows the watching of the flow of a running program in realtime within the process environment for core, PCP, PCP2, DMA, if available. ETB trace is supported.
Target monitor and bootstrap loader solutions for a flexible access via a wide variety of debug channels (ASC, SSC, 3Pin, CAN) are available.

Supported Microcontrollers in detail

Our debugging software escorts you either way. Please find the following overview about the different debug solutions and their support. Typical variants for remote debug connection using the debugger Universal Debug Engine regarding the available communication interfaces on the C166, ST10, XC166, XC2000, XE166, TriCore, PowerPC, ARM7, ARM9, ARM11 and XScale MCU hardware:

Infineon 80C166, 83C166, 88C166
Infineon C161, C163, C164, C165UTAH, C167
STMicroelectronics ST10R163, ST10F163, ST10R165, ST10F166, ST10R167, ST10F167, ST10F168, ST10F169, ST10R172
STMicroelectronics ST10F251, ST10F252, ST10F269, ST10R271, ST10R272, ST10R273, ST10F275, ST10F276, ST10F280, ST10F282, ST10F296
Infineon XC161, XC164, XC167
Infineon XC2264, XC2267, XC2285, XC2286, XC2287
Infineon XC2365, XC2387
Infineon XC2766, XC2786
Infineon XE164, XE167
Infineon Vecon, EGOLD
Micronas SDA6000, SDA6001
Infineon TC11IB, TC1100, TC1115, TC1130, TC1161, TC1162, TC1163, TC1164, TC1165, TC1166
Infineon TC1765, TC1766, TC1766ED, TC1775, Infineon TC1796, TC1796ED
Infineon TC1910, TC1912, TC1920
AMCC PPC440
Freescale MPC5514, MPC5516, MPC5517, MPC5533, MPC5534, MPC5553, MPC5554, MPC5561, MPC5565, MPC5566, MPC5568
Analog Devices ADuC7019, ADuC7020, ADuC7021, ADuC7022, ADuC7024, ADuC7025, ADuC7026, ADuC7027
Atmel AT91M40, AT91SAM7, AT91FR40162
Cirrus Logic EP7309, EP7311, EP7312
Freescale PAC72x1, PAC72x2, MAC71x1, MAC71x2, MAC71x4, MAC71x5, MAC71x6, MAC7241, MAC7242
NXP LPC2114, LPC2119, LPC2124, LPC2129, LPC2131, LPC2132, LPC2134, LPC2136, LPC2138, LPC2142, LPC2144, LPC2146, LPC2148, LPC2194
NXP LPC2212, LPC2214, LPC2220, LPC2292, LPC2294
NXP LPC2364, LPC2366, LPC2368, LPC2378, LPC2387
NXP LPC2468, LPC2470, LPC2478
NXP LPC2880, LPC2888
NetSilicon NS7520
NetSilicon NET+15, NET+20, NET+40, NET+50
STMicroelectronics ST30F771, ST30F772, ST30F774
STMicroelectronics STR710, STR711, STR712, STR720, STR730, STR731, STR750
TexasInstruments TMS470R1A64, TMS470R1A128, TMS470R1A256, TMS470R1A288, TMS470R1A384
TexasInstruments TMS470R1B512, TMS470R1B768
Atmel AT91RM9200
Atmel AT91SAM9260, AT91SAM9261, AT91SAM9263, AT91SAM9R64, AT91SAM9RL64, AT91SAM9XE128, AT91SAM9XE256, AT91SAM9XE512
Cirrus Logic EP9301, EP9302, EP9307, EP0312, EP9315
Freescale IMX27
Freescale MC9328MX1, MC9328MX21, MC94MX21
NEC Ertec200, Ertec400
NetSilicon NS9360, NS9750, NS9775
NXP LH7A400N0, LH7A404N0
NXP LPC2915, LPC2917, LPC2919,LPC3180
STMicroelectronics STR910, STR911, STR912
TexasInstruments OMAP5912
Marvell/Intel XScale PXA255, PXA270
Marvell/Intel IXP420, IXP421, IXP422, IXP423, IXP425, IXP455, IXP460, IXP465
Freescale i.MX31
ARM Cortex-M3

Target System Communication

UDE features various target communication channels:

ASC0/ASC1 asynchronous RS232
ASC0/ASC1 asynchronous TTL
ASC0/ASC1 synchronous RS485 (PROFIBUS compatible)
SSC synchronous RS485
SSC synchronous TTL
3Pin Interface (Software SSC) RS485
3Pin Interface (Software SSC) TTL
3Pin Interface (Hardware) TTL
Full Speed CAN
JTAG, DAP, COP
ETM, ETB, JTAG OCDS L1 and L2

Please note that the offered communication features depend from your Hardware Communication Device.

FLASH/OTP Programming In-System

Universal Debug Engine integrates High-Speed FLASH/OTP Programming Support - UDE MemTool for internal FLASH/OTP, external FLASH EPROMs (AM29F xxx and i28F xxx family) and any other JEDEC-compatible FLASH.

Compilers

For your convenience, UDE supports all of the available C/C++ Compilers:

C166/ST10 Compiler

C166/ST10 C/C++ Compiler (Tasking)
CA166 Compiler (Keil)
GNU C166/ST10 C/C++ (HighTec)

XC16x Compiler

XC16x C/C++ Compiler (Tasking)
GNU XC16x C/C++ (HighTec)

TriCore Compiler

TriCore Compiler C/C++ (Tasking)
GNU TriCore C/C++ (HighTec)
TriCore C/C++ (Green Hills)
TriCore C/C++ (Wind River)

ARM Compiler

ARM Compiler /C++ (Tasking)
CARM Compiler (Keil)
GNU C/C++ for ARM7/9 (HighTec)
ADS ARM® Developer Suite (ARM®)
ImageCraft Compiler (ImageCraft)

UDE Graphical Diagram Display Window

The UDE graphical display window is a powerful visualization tool, which helps to accelerate the evaluation of complex target program data from process environment and by the verification of complex software algorithms. It can be used with all microcontroller families supported by UDE.
The UDE window displays pre-processed target system data as curves of a 2-dimensional scientific diagram. This feature makes it easier to visualize and evaluate target data to accelerate the verification of complex software algorithms and input from process environment.

Basic features of the Graphic Display Window:

Multiple curves in one diagram window
Separate x- and y-axis for each curve
Flexible calculation of curve data points from target program data with UDE expressions
Update of data after program hold or with programmable refresh rates during running and stopped target program
Legend, Cursor, Zoom, Pan, Axis markers
Save and restore of complex settings in UDE workspace and separate file
Printer support.

Further helpful features to evaluate data are the zoom-, pan- and cursor functions. This functions help to view details of the current curves. The cursor function makes it easy to access to the particular data values at specific coordinates of the curve.

Triggered Transfer

The UDE TTF Recorder uses the Triggered Transfer feature of new Infineon microcontrollers. Triggered Transfer is part of the on-chip debug support implemented on these controllers. It allows transferring the value of a single memory location via the JTAG debug interface.

The transfer is triggered by a debug event of the onchip debug support (OCDS) unit. There are several types of debug events that can trigger the transfer depending on the actual type of controller. A typical use case provided by all supported controller types is to trigger on write accesses on a single variable and to transfer the new value of the variable.

The recording is done while the target system is in running state.

CAN recorder with plug-in for CANopen visualization

The UDE CAN recorder tool provides the visualization of CAN bus communication and can be used as an add-in or as a stand-alone application. Equipped with the CANopen message formatter plug-in the CAN recorder can visualize the CANopen communication or a user-defined CAN-layer-7-protocol.

The recorder can be configured for filtering and for displaying of symbolic information and can export CAN message streams to a file. A send bar provides the sending and stimulating of the CAN bus. CAN baud rates from 50 kbit/s up to 1Mbit/s and standard / extended CAN identifier are supported.

The UDE CAN recorder supports a Common Object Model (COM). This feature allows the usage of UDE CAN recorder as plug-in of user applications as well as the script-controlled by other applications.

The CANopen message formatter is a plug-in for the UDE CAN recorder and can visualize the CANopen communication. The plug-in scans and interprets DCF-files automatically. This makes data of CANopen networks and CAN nodes available. If no DCF-file is available the message formatter interprets all CANopen standard objects corresponding to the default specification.
In other cases the CANopen message formatter handles an interpretation file for the visualization functionality of the UDE CAN recorder. This file can be edited and manipulated by the user, for example for visualization of a user-defined CAN-layer-7-protocol.

CAN Monitoring with On-chip Debug Support and CAN Bootstrap Loader of XC16x and TriCore

Direct debugging via CAN-Bus is provided by means of the On-Chip Debug System (OCDS) with standardized close connection to the JTAG interface due to support by the latest software package UDE-mon/LII. The using of OCDS enables hardware breakpoints for debugging within the FLASH memory and data breakpoints, which allow for dedicated hold with read or write access to program variables. With the UDEmon/LII target monitor the described functions are now available for all members of the XC16 and TriCore families also via CAN-Bus without limitations. Besides the extended application capabilities the user also benefits from substantially reduced system costs, since there is no more specific adaptation necessary for the user hardware.

The target monitor requires approximately 16 kByte FLASH memory and 1 kByte RAM for the TriCore derivatives and approximately 4 kByte FLASH memory and 100 Byte RAM for members of the XC16x family. Also a message object and a CAN identifier need to be provided.

A shared utilization of one CAN module by the application and the target monitor is as easily implemented as the access to a separate CAN module of TwinCAN or MultiCAN units of the respective microcontroller. The monitor software includes the C and assembler text for the various common compiler packages and can be integrated into existing applications in a simple way.
The usage of the CAN bootstrap loading mechanism is supported by UDE and UDE MemTool.

Realtime Data Monitoring and Collection

With UDE it is possible simple program variables, contents of complex terms and physical terms from multiples of these system variables to record in realtime and evaluate within the UDE. It is, therefore, possible to analyze the real-time behaviour of the developed software and to recognize and repair problems with the distribution of the processor performance as well as synchronization problems between multiple parallel running program routines. In order to minimize the influence of the system behaviour, only debug interfaces are used, which allow a transparent read-out of the system information in the background of the active program.

The visualization takes place by means of a two-dimensional graphical representation of multiple signals over a common time axis in a curve diagram. All necessary signal data can be extracted as a result of scanning: values from individual variables, elements from complex data structures or even via any complex combination from multiple single data. The option to compute complex physical values in real-time from program variables helps the user thereby, as far as possible, to simplify the interpretation and evaluation of the displayed diagrams.

The data is pre-processed in the Universal Access Device 2 (UAD2) or Universal Access Device 2+ (UAD2+), which is connected directly to the target system. The UAD2 and UAD2+ were also designed by pls Programmierbare Logik & Systeme and thanks to an inherent 32-bit controller offer an extremely powerful communication equipment, which allows that even with complex expressions a minimum sampling period in the range of 1 millisecond (1 ms) is assured. Following this, the computed data is buffered in the Universal Access Device. 32 MByte of main memory ensures that data with up to 30 minutes storage time are not lost until read-out by the UDE. Furthermore, the data can be stored in parallel in XML-Format, whereby a subsequent evaluation of the data via script or another program (e.g. Excel) is possible. An optimal display of the recorded data is offered by multiple selectable modes of the viewing window. Moreover, the graphical representation enables the use of additional functions - such as zoom, data cursor and switch able function markers - for the examination of details.

Profiling Support

The knowledge of CPU load distribution of the running target application is a basic requirement to optimize their real-time behaviour. UDE supports the profiling of code trace data from different sources:

"IP - Snooping" trace - UAD2+ polls instruction pointer of TriCore or XC16x CPU periodically with minimum poll period of 1 millisecond
OCDS L2 trace / ETM code trace
MCDS code trace
ARM SoC-Designer PCP2 simulator trace

The instruction pointer trace data will be collected due their occurrence in the functions of the application. If the value cannot be assigned to any known function, it will be assigned to the known code section of the program (depends from availability of debug information).

The evaluation counts the trace hits of the appropriate ranges and calculates the execution time of the range due to execution time of the trace samples. The results are available as chart diagram and as numeric result table. Additional the UDE profiling page enables, that the results can be saved in a free selectable XML base data sink for later processing.
This data sink can be processed in a normal MS Excel 2003 environment or can be processed by Windows Script languages and MS XML parser function (which are installed by UDE). All functions to access to the generated profiling data are also available via UDE object model to allow creating internal and external script for automatic post-processing.

Automated Testing with Tessy

The test system Tessy from Razorcat offers automated module testing of C code directly on the target system using Universal Debug Engine (UDE) debugging technology. It supports the whole unit testing cycle and works transparently on all target platforms currently supported by UDE.

Systematic test case design using the classification tree method: Intuitive, easy to learn graphical representation of test specifications.
Quick overview of test objects interface and variable usage within interface browser tools.
Easy creation of module environment: Definition of unresolved references and all necessary stubs.
Automatic test driver generation, test execution and evaluation of test results.
Test driver in client/server technology allows unlimited number of test cases and minimum code/data requirements on the target system.
Powerful support for regression testing: An interface browser tool shows both old and changed interfaces and provides comfortable interface assignment that allows automatic reusage of test data.
For C166/ ST10 and TriCore target systems Tessy is available with Universal Debug Engine (UDE).

RTOS - Real Time Operation System Supoort

CMX Support

The CMX-RTX™ Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is a fully preemptive operating system with a powerful set of system functions, very moderate memory requirements and fast system response time.

MicroC/OS-II

µC/OS-II, the Real-Time Kernel is a portable, ROMable, scalable, preemptive real-time, multitasking kernel for microprocessors and microcontrollers. µC/OS-II can manage up to 63 application tasks.

Nucleus Support

UDE features the visualization of the Nucleus RTOS objects in a clearly arranged and comfortable manner. UDE uses the debug communication channel for getting of RTOS object data. All other controller peripheral channels are user available.

PXMON Support

PXROS stands for Portable eXtendable Realtime Operating System. PXROS is a sophisticated Real-Time Operating System and allows you to design modern, object-oriented applications with independent tasks and associated handlers for high priority actions. UDE supports the PXMON Task Level Debugger.

OSEK ORTI Support

UDE features ORTI, the OSEK run-time interface of the OSEK operating system regarding the visualisation of OSEK object information as OS state, performance, task states etc.

OSE 166 Illuminator Support

The new Illuminator communication mode using the JTAG OCDS L1 interface of C166CBC microcontrollers supports System Level Debugging within the Illuminator's Run Mode.
All other communication interfaces of the target system may be used by the OSE application without any restrictions.
Universal Debug Engine provides fast application downloading and easy FLASH/OTP programming.
As a sophisticated HLL Debugger, Universal Debug Engine offers all standard features to debug applications at kernel level.
The JTAG OCDS bus provides a significant higher communication speed compared to the standard serial interface. Additionally, no further hardware resources are required for the debug channel.

Graphical Real Time Monitoring Tool with StethoScope

StethoScope is the real-time graphical monitoring tool for Universal Debug Engine (UDE). StethoScope gives you a window into the very heart of your application, presenting a live analysis of your program while preserving real-time performance. You can immediately see the effects of code changes, parameter changes, or external events. It allows you to look at any variable or memory location in your system. You can watch any set of variables, see peak values and glitches you would otherwise miss, trigger collection on specific events, and save all your data to disk. With Universal Debug Engine and StethoScope together, you can make your system work.
StethoScope is developed by Real-Time Innovations, Inc. (RTI). RTI is a leading developer of new tools for the growing real-time software market.

OCDS L2 Instruction Trace

Hard real-time debugging requires close interaction with the processor. Tracing shall provide a chronological picture of a system's inner workings up to, starting from or in the vicinity an event, mainly to guide a human in understanding a faulty program. OCDS L2 was defined for this purpose and is available on the TriCore derivatives. The OCDS L2 unit of the TriCore derivatives supports the recording of a running program's trace. In combination with the JTAG OCDS L1 unit a comfortable watching of the program flow in real-time is possible. UDE, the Universal Debug Engine, supports basically the OCDS unit by the Universal Access Device add-on. OCDS L2 Instruction Trace is supported by the Universal Access Device - Trace Board option.

MCDS Instruction Trace

MCDS support is an Add-in available for UDE and is used to capture processor states in real-time using an USB or JTAG connection to the derivative. This can only be done with the MCDS onchip trace features of special versions of TriCore TC1796 derivatives.

ETM Instruction Trace

The Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) of ARM derivatives is supported by UDE and is used to capture processor states in real-time using a dedicated connection to the derivative. The ETM v1.2 is supported via 4/8 bit port width, Halfrate Clock Mode is supported too.

OCDS L2 and MCDS Trace Feature Comparison

The following table gives an overview about the OCDS L2 and MCDS trace features of the Infineon TriCore microcontrollers.

Feature list	new MCDS	OCDS L2
Supported Chips	TC1796ED, TC1766ED	Any TriCore Derivative
TriCore Instruction Pointer Trace	yes	yes
DMA Trace	yes	yes
PCP Instruction Pointer Trace	yes	yes
PCP Channel (Priority) Trace	yes
Data Trace, Watch point Trace, Bus Trace	yes
TriCore-PCP mixed Instruction Pointer Trace	yes
Number of Ranges to be traced simultaneously	6 ranges	1 range
OCDSL1 Trigger Condition	yes	yes
Sequential Trigger Condition	yes
Reference-Clock (USB-Clock) based Time Stamps	yes
Time based Trigger Condition	yes
Tick based Time Stamps	yes	yes
Single shot Time Stamps for Time measurement	yes
Stopping TriCore and/or PCP on Trigger Condition	yes	Manual configuration
Emitting Signal on external Break pin on Trigger	yes	Manual configuration
Connector	16-Pin standard JTAG Connector	60-Pin OCDS L2 Connector with Trace pod
UDE-Tool Ordering Code	UDE/UAD2 and UEC	UDE/UAD2+-TC L2

Update and Upgrade, Technical Support

When you purchase an UDE Development Environment, you get a FREE Update Service for the UDE Debugger and the UDE-Mon Portable Monitor Development Kit for 12 months. The Update Service includes approximately two new software releases of the products including documentation, regular product news and updates or upgrades of other development environment components ( software, compiler, editor, evaluation hardware...) at a favorable price. For questions or problems we offer you our Technical Support Hotline. We specialize in supporting your whole development environment including interaction between the tools.

System Requirements / Compatibility

Microsoft Windows compatibel Personal Computer
Pentium III (or higher) processor running at 700MHz (or more) with 256MByte RAM
Pentium 4, Pentium M, Celeron, Athlon, Athlon64 ( X2 ), Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad (> 1,4GHz) with 512MByte RAM recommended
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP4), Windows XP, Windows Vista
Windows XP (SP2) or Windows Vista recommended
.NET Framework 2.0
Windows Scripting Host V5.6 required for scripting support
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher
200 MByte space on local hard-disk
CDROM drive for installation
Administrator permissions for the current login during installation.

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