A model of remote debugger supporting multiple types of connection

Author

Wenyu, Chen ; Dongpu, Han ; Dongcheng, Tang ; Zongbo, Hao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2011

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

642

Lastpage

645

Abstract

Software debugging plays an important role in the software development process. Traditional remote debuggers are allowed to use only serial port or ethernet connection to communicate with target. The data transfer rate of serial connection is slow. Ethernet connection needs ethernet card, but it is too large to be used on small embedded devices. For these reasons, we propose a model of remote debugger supporting multiple types of connection, such as serial port, ethernet, USB, Bluetooth and other debug channels to adapt to the diversity of embedded hardware environment. This model has better convenience, and the data transfer rate has been improved greatly than traditional remote debugger for embedded systems.

Keywords

embedded systems; local area networks; program debugging; software engineering; Bluetooth; Ethernet card; Ethernet connection; USB; data transfer rate; debug channels; embedded devices; embedded hardware environment; embedded systems; multiple connection types; remote debugger; serial connection; serial port; software debugging; software development; Bluetooth; Computers; Debugging; Linux; Protocols; Servers; Universal Serial Bus; RFCOMM; Remote Debugger; USB virtual serial port; cross debugger;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Communications and Control (ICECC), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ningbo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0320-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECC.2011.6066580

Filename

6066580