【Taiwan HsinChu】Andes Technology Corporation, a pioneer in developing high performance, low power consumption 32-bit microprocessors and associated SoC platforms. And Lauterbach GmbH, the market and technology leader in hardware debuggers and real-time trace tools, now announced that AndesCore are supported by Lauterbach TRACE32 Power Tools.

The popular TRACE32 Power Tools, comprised of Lauterbach’s PowerView IDE, PowerDebug in-circuit-debug module and an adapter, support the AndesCore N-series processors, currently including 3 fully binary- and debugger- compatible families: the N12, N10 and N9. TRACE32 also offers OS-aware support for most popular operating systems (including Linux kernel and Nucleus Plus, etc.) that run on AndesCore N-series processors.

The AndesCore N-series are fully-synthesizable softcores of general purpose 32-bit embedded processors, with variety of configuration options including MMU, MPU, cache and local memory, and their derivatives (such as firmcores and hardcores). They can be configured for performance sensitive applications that run embedded Linux or real time operating systems at over 600MHz at 90nm process, as well as cost and power sensitive applications that require small footprint and manageable power consumption at 100MHz or lower at .18um process.

“Andes are pleased to have TRACE32 debugger support to speed up the software development on Andes processor cores.”, Dr. Charlie Su, CTO of Andes Technology said, “With the support of TRACE32 Power Tools, not only does Andes keep its promise to provide customers with the best development tools, but it also shows the flexibility and practicality of AndesCore families in hardware debugging support and compatibilities among AndesCore families.