Lauterbach, the manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, has launched TRACE32 debugging tool support for the PowerPC 440 processor cores embedded in the recently announced Virtex5 FXT FPGA family, the System Integration Platform from Xilinx.

Building on its long-time support of the PowerPC440 processing architecture, Lauterbach has added Virtex-5 FXT FPGAs to its list of validated target devices. This is in addition to current TRACE32 support for the PowerPC405 processor found in earlier Virtex devices as well as the MicroBlaze soft processor. In multi-core designs, any combination of these cores can be debugged concurrently using a single TRACE32 debug interface.

TRACE32 supports all hardware debug features of the PowerPC440 core, access to ISOCM memories in Virtex-II Pro, Virtex-4 FX and Virtex-5 FXT devices, and flash programming. To conserve logic resources on the FPGA, Lauterbach also offers an off-chip real-time trace capability with sophisticated trace filters and triggers that stores data in up to 2GB of external high-speed memory. Additionally, there are kernel awareness extensions for µCLinux, Linux QNX, VxWorks, Nucleus PLUS and many other operating systems.