Software Design and Implementation of Data Breakpoint in Embedded System

Author

Xuhui Chen ; Hongyun Yang ; Jia Chen ; Ping Zhu

Author_Institution

Coll. of Math. & Comput. Sci., Wuhan Textile Univ., Wuhan, China

fYear

2012

fDate

25-27 June 2012

Firstpage

1726

Lastpage

1729

Abstract

Software reverse engineering in embedded system is not convenient than it on the PC. There are many debugging and analysis software on the PC. In embedded systems, due to the diversity types of processors, it is difficult to make software tools using anywhere. However, the diversity types of processors also provide us with convenience. We can use some special features of the processors to complete software analysis. In this paper, we implement data breakpoint using hardware breakpoint registers of XScale core in Windows CE system.

Keywords

coprocessors; embedded systems; program debugging; reverse engineering; software tools; PC; Windows CE system; XScale core; data breakpoint; embedded system; hardware breakpoint register; software analysis; software debugging; software design; software reverse engineering; software tools; Educational institutions; Embedded systems; Hardware; Program processors; Registers; Reverse engineering; Hardware Breakpoint; Software Reverse Engineering; Windows CE; Xscale;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High Performance Computing and Communication & 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (HPCC-ICESS), 2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Liverpool

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2164-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HPCC.2012.259

Filename

6332393