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Opella-XD for the EMMA^TM Product Group from NEC Electronics

Opella-XD for NEC EMMA

The EMMA^TM LSI product group from NEC Electronics is designed for Digital AV applications, such as STB (Set-Top-Box), Digital TV, and DVD recorders. The products deliver versatile and uncompromised performance through MPEG signal process core technology. EMMA^TM enables and empowers digital AV applications, from high-end requirements, such as digital High Definition (HD) signal process, to low-end requirements, such as one-chip processor for standard definition (SD) compatible devices. Developed in co-operation with NEC, the Ashling toolset offers a comprehensive solution for EMMA^TM application development. The toolset includes:

Opella-XD Debug Probe
PathFinder Source-level Debugger
GDB-Server-MIPS GNU GDB Server allows Ashling hardware emulators to be used with GNU GDB/Insight/Eclipse CDT and other third party Debuggers. Supported under Windows and Linux hosts.

Opella-XD

Ashling's Opella-XD EJTAG Debug Probe is the fastest available debug probe for embedded development on MIPS^TM RISC cores. Advanced features of Opella-XD include:

Fast, easy-to-install USB 2.0 High-Speed Interface (480Mb/s) to host PC or Linux Workstation
Unique auto-conditioning Probe provides maximum possible download speed to target with fastest JTAG clock frequencies
Fast, trouble-free Plug-and-Play installation
Small, versatile Target Probe Cable
Fast in-target Flash Programming
Works with Windows and Linux hosts
Built-in diagnostics instantly show status of Target, Debug Probe and USB link
Universal Hardware-Debug platform for all popular target architectures and compilers

Benefits of Opella-XD to the embedded hardware developer:

Accelerates the entire embedded-hardware debug process: ultra-fast installation, code download and flash programming saves time at every code rebuild
Instantly autoconfigures to target system
Long-term investment: works with all popular target architectures and compilers
Helps with the most difficult debugging tasks: hardware bring-up, operating-system booting, post-mortem debugging
Future-proof: works with latest hardware-debug protocols, all popular host operating-systems
Compact, easy-to-install target probe cables support all popular debug interfaces

Opella-XD Debug Probe Specification:

Target EJTAG clock rates up to 100MHz
Sustained code download to target at over 3MB/s (using 100MHz EJTAG clock)
Supports all MIPS^TM hardware-debug standards: EJTAG 4.10, 3.10, 2.6x, 2.5x, 2.0x and 1.5x14-way or 20-way IDC target EJTAG connectors
Configurable Target-Reset and Test-Port-Reset, under full user control
Fine-grained adjustment of JTAG clock frequency from 1KHz to 100MHz
Supports target operating voltages from 0.9V to 3.6V. Opella-XD detects and automatically configures for the appropriate target voltages
Supports RTCK adaptive clocking of debug data from target (EJTAG 4.10
"Hot-plug" support; allows connection to a running target without resetting or halting
Fully powered by USB interface; no external power-supply needed
Support for all on-chip hardware breakpoints; unlimited number of software breakpoints
Big-endian and little-endian target architectures supported
Full support for MIPS16^TM/MIPS16e^TM code compression

PathFinder Source-level Debugger:

PathFinder is Ashling's Source-level Debugger for the NEC Emma^TM family with multiple user-configurable windows and script (macro)-file controls. PathFinder's Object-Oriented Monitoring and Editing System provides tree-structured "click to expand" access to all memory-areas, register sets, registers and bits of the MIPS core, with a logical and friendly Windows-XP-style display.

PathFinder features include:

Full C and assembly source level debug support including step-into, step-over and step-out-of
Built-in Code Browser allowing rapid navigation of application source code
Call Stack (Backtrace) window shows current function stack with optional parameter display
Support for all third party MIPS^TM toolsets including MIPS^TM SDE, Green Hills Software, Wind River Systems (Diab Data), GNU GDB and all other ELF/DWARF compliant compilers
Powerful script language to control, monitor and log all Emulator functions from within PathFinder
Remote Control Interface allows external applications to control PathFinder/Emulator via TCP/IP based API
Operating System Debug using integrated RTOS monitoring window based on open-standard Kernel Debug Interface (KDI) API
Full run-time control debug support for cached applications
Hardware and unlimited software breakpoint support
Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) window allowing easy setup and interrogation of the TLB
Integrated flash programming and debug support
Support for Windows 2000/XP/Vista

GDB-Server-MIPS:

Ashling's GDB-Server-MIPS software package allows Ashling's Target Debug Probes to be used with the GNU GDB open-source debugger. The Ashling GNU GDB Server is available for Windows and Linux (x86 based) hosts and supports GNU GDB and all Eclipse CDT based debuggers.

Device Support:

EMMA2, EMMA2L, EMMA2LL, EMMA2SV, EMMA2SW, EMMA2SP, EMMA2SL/P, EMMA2SL/S, EMMA2HL, EMMA2R, EMMA2RL, EMMA2RLL, EMMA2RFE, EMMA2RH

Order Codes:

Opella-XD for MIPS Debug Probe. Includes USB 2.0 cable, documentation and diagnostic software	Opella-XD-MIPS
14-pin Target Probe Cable with 0.1"-pitch IDC connector for EJTAG versions 2.5 - 4.10. Supports target voltages 0.9V to 3.6V	TPAOP-MIPS14
PathFinder for MIPS Source Debugger software for Windows hosts; supports all popular MIPS compilers.	PF-MIPS
GDB-Server for GNU GDB MIPS. Connects GNU GDB (Windows and Linux hosts) to Opella-XD Debug Probe.	GDB-Server-MIPS

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