12/12/2022 » Ashling announce availability of their new Vitra-XS Debug & Trace Probe…

December 12, 2022 – RISC-V Summit, San Jose, Silicon Valley, California, USA. Ashling announced the availability of Vitra-XS, the newest member of the Ashling probe family. Vitra-XS is a debug & trace probe for embedded development with support for multiple target architectures including RISC-V & Arm powered systems.

 

Vitra-XS works with Ashling’s RiscFree™ Eclipse-based IDE & Debugger and supports:

    • Capturing (recording) & viewing of program-flow & data-accesses in real-time, non-intrusively

    • Program downloading from the host PC to the target embedded system

    • Exercising programs in the target (go, step, halt, breakpoints, interrogate memory, registers & variables)

 

“Vitra-XS supports real-time trace which provides some key advantages when it comes to debugging and validating embedded systems. Using trace, developers can easily see how execution arrived at a certain point, via a back-trace or instruction history, and can answer questions like ‘How did I end up in this function?’ and ‘Why did my code crash?’ Trace information can be captured non-intrusively meaning that the application’s real-time performance is not affected and allows developers to profile their code to find out where time is actually being spent and to determine if timing requirements are being met.” – Hugh O’Keeffe, CEO of Ashling.

 

Key Features of Vitra-XS

    • Fast, trouble-free “plug-&-play” installation using SuperSpeed USB3.0

    • Supports RISC-V debug & trace standards including E-Trace & N-Trace

    • Supports Arm CoreSight™ debug & trace standards including SWD, DAP, ETM, PTM, STM & CTI

    • Heterogeneous (Arm + RISC-V) & homogeneous debug & trace support for multi-core SoCs sharing a single debug & trace interface

    • 38-way Mictor target connector support with adapter support for other connector types

    • Automatic target voltage detection & configuration (0.9V to 5.0V)

    • Automatic trace clock & data skew adjustment (“AUTOLOCK”) for high-speed data integrity, with self-calibration to the target’s trace port

    • Parallel (up to 16-bit data + control) trace capture up to 400MHz

    • On-board trace storage memory (up to 512MB), configurable as a circular buffer for continuous trace capture up to defined events (e.g., breakpoints, exceptions)

    • Unlimited trace storage via high-speed, real-time streaming over SuperSpeed USB to host PC hard disk

    • Optional Gigabit Ethernet interface & compact form factor

The Ashling Vitra-XS was showcased for the first time at the RISC-V 2022 Summit in San Jose at the Ashling silver booth (S3).

 

About Ashling

Ashling has been a leading provider of Embedded Development Tools & Services since 1982 with design centres in Limerick, Ireland and Cochin, India, and sales and support offices in Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East and America. Visit www.ashling.com for more details.

 

Contacts

Ashling: Nadim Shehayed, VP of Business Development – nadim.shehayed@ashling.com

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