Enea OSE Teams With Green Hills To Make Run-mode Debugging Reality

Enea OSE Systems is collaborating with Green Hills Software, Inc. to create a run-mode debugging solution for today's most advanced applications and largest projects.

Unlike conventional debugging, run-mode debugging enables developers to debug multiple blocks of processes or load modules simultaneously, as well as multiple nodes in distributed systems over a single target connection. It also allows designers to halt and examine one process without disrupting other processes, making it ideal for distributed, high-availability telecommunications applications that require continuous operation.

As opposed to debugging with BDM and JTAG connections, run mode debugging allows stopping one or more processes while the other processes in the system continue to run. The stopped processes can be single stepped, and the registers and memory can be read.

The key to making run-mode debugging a reality is the combination of Green Hills' software development environment, MULTI, and OSE's operating system level debug and analysis tool, Illuminator. MULTI is a complete programming environment that provides automated source-level editing, compilation, debugging, profiling, and project/version control facilities that are geared to the large development teams that typically work on complex distributed projects. Illuminator, meanwhile, provides application-level debugging for complex applications that need to execute during the debug process, such as high-availability systems in telecommunications or safety critical fault tolerant systems in industrial process control and medical instrumentation.