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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.
ARM HSSTP Active Probe
allows debugging, tracing and testing ARM® Cortex™ architectures. It
supports both the JTAG debug interface and ARM High-Speed Trace Port (HSSTP). 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 parallel HSSTP lanes, running at a maximum
bitrate of 5Gbps.
Complementing the hardware is a range of software which target three key areas of embedded
development: debugging, timing-analysis and testing.
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 the
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 task can also be visualized.
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
a Wine emulation under the Linux operating system. All our software can be downloaded from
the Downloads page at