Category: Software Debug and Trace – ARM

At-Scale Debugging

Alan Sguigna

December 18, 2016
2:24 pm

The conventional approach to hardware-assisted debugging on Intel platforms involves physically connecting an external probe to the target. Is there a better way?

Using Embedded Run-Control for PCIe Link Training Testing

Alan Sguigna

November 6, 2016
5:43 pm

It is often part of a hardware validation test suite to initiate multiple PCIe bus retrains, looking for hardware design issues, or LTSSM RTL bugs in the device under test. These test suites take a very long time to run. Is there a way to speed them up?

Using Trace to Diagnose the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)

Alan Sguigna

October 30, 2016
8:32 pm

One in 10,000 times, your notebook crashes when you wake it up in the middle of a backup of your hard disk. No big deal?

Linux on UEFI-based ARMv8 Servers

Alan Sguigna

October 16, 2016
7:06 pm

A few weeks ago ASSET attended the UEFI Forum Plugfest, where a number of ARM 64-bit servers were on display. How does ARM play in a UEFI world?

Open Compute Project, and Containers vs VMs

Alan Sguigna

October 2, 2016
3:46 pm

ASSET joined the Open Compute Project (OCP) earlier this year, and we attended our first Engineering Workshop in Dallas last week. The theme of this session was the OCP Telco Project. What did we learn?

2016 UEFI Forum Plugfest – Seattle, WA

Alan Sguigna

September 25, 2016
4:09 pm

ASSET (yours truly) attended the September 2016 Plugfest at the UEFI Forum in Seattle, WA. Was it worthwhile?

Speeding up printf for BIOS Trace

Alan Sguigna

July 4, 2016
5:22 pm

UEFI, like other embedded code bases, is riddled with printf style debug statements. In debug builds, these can slow the boot process down tremendously. There is a way to circumvent this.

Intel Processor Trace for UEFI Debug

Alan Sguigna

June 26, 2016
9:57 pm

Intel Processor Trace (Intel PT) is a capability on new Intel silicon that captures information about software execution using dedicated hardware facilities inside the chip. How is it used to debug UEFI?

Heterogeneous System Architecture within High-Performance Computing

Alan Sguigna

June 19, 2016
3:48 pm

Heterogeneous Computing refers to systems that use more than one kind of processor, typically a combination of CPUs and GPUs, sometimes on the same silicon die. Is this solution optimized for supercomputing applications?

Benefits of, and Misconceptions about, UEFI

Alan Sguigna

May 8, 2016
4:42 pm

ASSET recently joined the UEFI Forum and, enjoying the benefits of membership, we came across this paper extolling the virtues of the technology and clarifying some common misconceptions.

Category: Software Debug and Trace – ARM

At-Scale Debugging

Using Embedded Run-Control for PCIe Link Training Testing

Using Trace to Diagnose the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)

Linux on UEFI-based ARMv8 Servers

Open Compute Project, and Containers vs VMs

2016 UEFI Forum Plugfest – Seattle, WA

Speeding up printf for BIOS Trace

Intel Processor Trace for UEFI Debug

Heterogeneous System Architecture within High-Performance Computing

Benefits of, and Misconceptions about, UEFI

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