Don Kleber Bebout

7124404, Oct 17, 2006

May 21, 2002

10/153576

Don W. Bebout - Fountain Valley CA, US
Ulrich Bortfeld - Fremont CA, US
Wade D. Guthrie - Laguna Beach CA, US

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. - Newport Beach CA

G06F 9/44

717127, 717131

Debugging a multiprocessor system utilizing at least two debuggers is disclosed. A user command is issued through a first debugger to a first processor in the multiprocessor system. The user command can be converted to a debugger RPC command by a first proxy module associated with the first debugger. The user command can be intercepted by a scheduler. A second processor in the multiprocessor system is then informed, for example by the scheduler, of the issuance of the user command. The user command is executed by both the first and second processors and both the first and second debuggers can then be informed by means of processor RPC commands of the execution of the user command. The processor RPC commands can be converted to callback commands by respective first and second proxy modules associated with the first and second processors when being sent to the first and second debuggers.

20030217353, Nov 20, 2003

May 15, 2002

10/147379

Don Bebout - Fountain Valley CA, US
Varsha Shamabhat - Rancho Santa Margarita CA, US

G06F009/44
G06F009/00

717/125000, 709/328000

One disclosed embodiment is a method for adapting a user interface of a debugger to a given target where the method includes querying the target for target-specific information. For example, the target is queried by a debug core in the debugger to obtain target-specific information such as register groups, a register map, information about compound registers, memory address spaces, and memory blocks in the particular target being debugged. In this embodiment, the debugger interfaces with the target through various register and memory APIs. After the target-specific information is obtained by the debug core in the debugger, such information is transmitted to the user interface in the debugger. Thereafter, the user interface in the debugger adapts itself to the particular target being debugged and accommodates interfacing with a user by presenting information to the user corresponding to, for example, the particular register and memory configuration of the target being debugged.

6938185, Aug 30, 2005

Jun 25, 2002

10/180480

Don W. Bebout - Fountain Valley CA, US
Varsha T Shamabhat - Rancho Santa Margarita CA, US

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. - Newport Beach CA

G06F011/00

714 28, 717124

One disclosed embodiment is a method for adapting a debugger to a selected target. According to this embodiment, the debugger connects to the selected target. Thereafter a debug core in the debugger dynamically loads a module set from a target database that corresponds to the selected target. Next, a debug info/loader, a disassembler, and/or a target support are dynamically loaded based on the module set loaded by debug core. Thereafter, the debug info/loader, disassembler, and/or target support can directly connect to the selected target to retrieve additional target-specific information. By implementing the above method, the debugger can adapt to new or different targets without the need to rebuild different versions of the debugger to suit new or different targets. In other embodiments, a system for implementing the above method, and a computer readable medium containing a computer program for implementing the above method, are disclosed.