Introduction
1-2
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ARM DDI 0275D
1.1
About the Embedded Trace Buffer
As process speeds increase it is increasingly difficult to obtain trace information off a
chip from an
Embedded Trace Macrocell
(ETM). This causes difficulties in maintaining
acceptable signal quality or the signals have to be demultiplexed on to what can become
a very large number of trace port pins.
The solution is to provide a buffer area on-chip where the trace information is stored,
and read from the chip later, at a slower rate.
The ETB11 stores data produced by the ETM11RV. The buffered data can then be
accessed by the debugging tools using a JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) interface, as shown in
Figure 1-1.
Figure 1-1 System-on-Chip debug implementation
System-on-Chip
PC-based
debugging
tool
ETB11
ARM processor
Peripherals
EmbeddedICE
Trace
RAM
ETM11RV
On-chip
ROM
On-chip
RAM
AHB bus
Trace port
analyzer
Ethernet
JTAG
interface unit
JTAG
Summary of Contents for ETB11
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