Enabling a robust on-chip debug capability is being recognized as animportant Design for Debug (DFD) capability for complex SoC and having DFDstandardization makes the Open Core Protocol (OCP) ...

Several processor vendors have extended JTAG software debug, often to make it faster, or to add hardware trace capabilities. The NEXUS consortium for example defines an auxiliary port containing a ...

Microcontrollers and FPGAs often work together in embedded systems. As more functions move into the FPGA, however, debugging the interface between the two devices becomes more difficult. The ...

Gilbert Laurenti, Texas Instruments Inc. Abstract Debug for SoC adds new requirements and challenges in terms of adding visibility and control to a system, simplifying integration of hardware and ...

Attackers with access to a device can take control over a target's computer and bypass all local security systems by abusing a hardware debugging interface included with Intel CPUs, which in recent ...

For debugging embedded microcontrollers running at 200MHz speeds tool vendors are making use of high speed serial interfaces such as USB to speed up data transfers. But the Nexus high speed interface ...

The PowerPC started out as a RISC challenger to the PC's XC86, developed by Apple, IBM, and Motorola. It lost that race, but it has become a major RISC for ICs, ASSPs, and cores. PowerPCs have a large ...

Intel responded to a claim about hackers gaining hardware-level access to PCs sporting its sixth- and seventh-generation processors. The claim was made during a presentation at the 33rd annual Chaos ...

A pair of researchers from Positive Technologies claim that Intel's newest generation processors are susceptible to a USB port debugging vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take over full ...

Researchers from security vendor Positive Technologies have revealed that some new Intel processors contain a debugging interface accessible via USB 3.0 ports, that can be used to obtain full control ...

We found a vulnerability in Intel 's new CPU including several debugging interfaces that allows attacks that take full control of the entire system via USB 3.0. According to researchers of Positive ...