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Debugging component-based embedded applications

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Kevin Pouget,

Vania Marangozova-Martin,

Miguel Santana,

Jean-François MehautAuthors Info & Claims

SCOPES '12: Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems

Pages 42 - 51

https://doi.org/10.1145/2236576.2236581

Published: 15 May 2012 Publication History

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With the advent of parallel architectures in the domain of embedded systems, developing applications fully adapted to their underlying platform becomes more and more complicated. Finding and fixing bugs in such environments is even trickier. Furthermore, current complex applications cannot be developed from scratch, only based on programming language primitives. They have to follow advanced programming models and their execution will be driven by the APIs of the key underlying libraries.

In this paper, we propose a new approach for source-level debuggers. Going beyond their long-established ability to support sequential programming languages, we describe the functionalities a debugger should be able to provide to debug embedded and parallel component-based applications. Then we demonstrate our solution to this problem with a debugger targeting the component framework used on an MPSoC platform. We also explain the development challenges we faced during the implementation of this GDB-based debugger and illustrate its efficiency though a case study of an image processing application.

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Debugging component-based embedded applications
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
2. Software and its engineering

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SCOPES '12: Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems

May 2012

82 pages

ISBN:9781450313360

DOI:10.1145/2236576

General Chair:
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Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

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Morisaki SShirata SOyama HAzumi T(2020)Unit Testing Framework for Embedded Component Systems2020 IEEE 18th International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC)10.1109/EUC50751.2020.00013(41-48)Online publication date: Dec-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/EUC50751.2020.00013
Shirata SOyama HAzumi T(2018)Runtime Component Information on Embedded Component Systems2018 IEEE 16th International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC)10.1109/EUC.2018.00032(166-173)Online publication date: Oct-2018
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Pouget KCueva PSantana MMehaut J(2013)Interactive Debugging of Dynamic Dataflow Embedded ApplicationsProceedings of the 2013 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and PhD Forum10.1109/IPDPSW.2013.23(345-354)Online publication date: 20-May-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/IPDPSW.2013.23

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