Esto NS-Debugger: The Non-stop Debugger for Embedded Systems

• Published in: The 9th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology Vol. 1; pp. 423 - 426
• Main Authors: In-geol Chun, Choon-oh Lee, Duk-kyun Woo
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01-02-2007
• Subjects: Application software; Computer bugs; Embedded computing; Embedded software; Embedded system; Embedded System Debugger; Engines; Non-Stop Debugging; Power engineering and energy; Quality assurance; Software debugging; User interfaces
• DOI: 10.1109/ICACT.2007.358386
• ISBN: 8955191316; 9788955191318
• ISSN: 1738-9445

Nowadays there is a lot of embedded software derived from the widespread of embedded systems. The characteristics of the embedded systems are the small size, limited resource and power. Because of that reason, the software in the embedded system is different from general computer software. Especially, finding bugs in the embedded software is the most different and complicate activity out of the embedded system development processes. In order to provide the high flexibility and the efficient deployment of various embedded systems, we developed a scalable and user-friendly debugger named Esto NS-Debugger (Esto Non-Stop Debugger). It supports general debugger functions and user-friendly interface like general software debugger. Especially as the time-sensitive and time-consuming application debugging is very difficult and boredom jobs, we also support a non-stop debugging function. In this paper, we focus on the design and implementation of the non-stop debugging function.