Introduction - iSystem Aurora MPC5 Series User Manual

Introduction

The iC5700 BlueBox On-Chip Analyzer is a hardware platform designed for debugging and testing
a wide range of embedded microcontroller platforms that are based on a variety of processor
architectures.
Functionality can be further extended with the addition of our IOM6 Accessories, enabling the
synchronous capture of analog and digital signals in parallel to trace information. Such capability
is used for advanced debugging of complex applications together with our winIDEA Integration
Development Environment (IDE), as well as for thorough testing in conjunction with our testing
environment testIDEA.
MPC5x/SPC5x Aurora Active Probe enables the debugging, tracing and testing of NXP MPC5xxx,
NXP S32R and ST SPC5 microcontroller families. Besides the standard JTAG debug interface it
supports also a high-speed Aurora trace interface operating at its maximum frequency. Its small
and compact hardware size allows for connecting to a target microcontroller in a confined space
as far as 5m away. The Active Probe supports up to 4 Aurora lanes, running at a maximum bitrate
of 5Gbps.
Complementing our hardware is a range of software which target three key areas of embedded
development: debugging, timing-analysis and testing.
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winIDEA – The winIDEA Integration Development Environment (IDE) delivers the visual
insights required to debug your embedded application. At the simplest level, winIDEA provides
all the usual functionality of an IDE, such as breakpoints, stepping and device programming.
When supported by the target microcontroller, winIDEA can also visualize the timing and code
coverage of the application via the trace interface, as well as combine data captured by our IOM
Accessories. Various third-parties also provide software tools to perform advanced worst-time-
execution analysis based upon the data winIDEA can export. When a Real-Time Operating
System (RTOS) is in use, the state of the RTOS and its tasks can also be visualized.
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testIDEA – The testIDEA environment simplifies the development of unit tests for embedded
applications. By making use of the winIDEA environment, this application makes it easy to locate
source code functions and generate test cases for them. Tests are then executed using the
Original Binary Code (OBC) method, testing the object code running on the target
microcontroller. The tests, which are stored as YAML files, can easily be added to a project,
maintained in a repository, and then automatically executed together with Continuous
Integration (CI) tools such as Jenkins.
isystem.connect – There are times where it is much more efficient to write a script to execute a
task that requires many clicks within a visual development environment. This is where our
Software Development Kit (SDK) isystem.connect comes in. The well documented interface
provides access to Python, Java, C++ and other languages so that any action available within
winIDEA and testIDEA can be scripted. Scripts can also be executed directly from within winIDEA,
thereby allowing the developer to extend its functionality.
iSYSTEM's solutions run under the Microsoft® Windows® operating system or optionally within
the Eclipse environment through a plug-in. All our software can be downloaded from the
Downloads page at http://www.isystem.com.
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