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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.
Infineon AGBT Active Probe
enables the debugging, tracing and testing of Infineon
’s
AURIX
™
microcontroller family. It supports the DAP and Aurora GigaBit Trace (AGBT) interface operating at
their 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 parallel
AGBT 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.
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.
testIDEA
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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
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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
