LDRA has integrated its tool suite with the Analog Devices VisualDSP++ (VDSP++) software development environment. The LDRA tool suite provides automated software testing and verification across all stages of software development. VDSP++ creates a software development environment for engineers working with Analog’s embedded processors. This offering enables seamless testing of user code at both the unit and system levels, coupled with enhanced error detection to speed up the overall software development process.

The tool suite supports the instrumentation of user code, test harness creation and processes target responses, and VDSP++ compiles and captures target results. The method of results capture is defined early in the process and is implemented in the instrumentation technique and harness code to accommodate the requirements and limitations of the target whether it is actual hardware or the VDSP++ simulator. This integration covers all devices supported by VDSP++.

Although initially written and tested to support version 4.5 of VDSP++, the tool suite integration will be tested with v5.0 and also v3.5 (supporting the ADSP-21xx). Further updates and developments to the support using Analog Devices VisualDSP++ are planned in the future.