September 2010: Ashling’s PathFinder-XD Debugger Software: Fully Functional, Unrestricted and Free of Charge!

Ashling Microsystems, a NeST Group company, has announced the availability of a fully functional and unrestricted simulation debug environment initially available for MIPS architectures. PathFinder-XD, a C/C++ source debugger based on the Eclipse/CDT framework and operating on Linux x86 and Windows™ hosts provides full support for debugging bare-metal and embedded Linux based applications. The software is now available for download on Ashling’s website.

The free PathFinder-XD Simulator software is targeted at MIPS™ architectures and includes the popular QEMU simulator which allows you to download and debug your MIPS™ based application programs without any target hardware.

For hardware debugging on your target hardware, Ashling has an extended PathFinder-XD product allowing support for Ashling’s Opella-XD JTAG and Vitra JTAG and Trace Debug Probes. The high performance of these Debug Probes makes them particularly suitable for large, complex, software-intensive projects requiring fast code download.

About Ashling Microsystems
Ashling Microsystems is an international Embedded Software Development Tools company. Ashling is a subsidiary of the NeST Group, a broad based technology provider operating in the areas of software development, electronics design and manufacturing, optronics and fiber optics, broadband and RF solutions and power systems and magnetics. Through its close cooperation with leading semiconductor vendors, Ashling is a world leader in the Embedded Software Development Tools market. Ashling has development centres in Limerick, Ireland and Trivandrum, India and sales and support representatives worldwide.