JTAG emulator for PowerPC 440EP

A new emulator from Corelis supports AMCC's PowerPC 440EP processor, which is ideally suited for a wide-range of applications including networking, imaging, and industrial control. The new CodeRunner tool provides support for board bring-up, driver and firmware development, and software application debugging.

With CodeRunner-PPC4XX JTAG Emulator software, engineers have source-level debug capability with multiple-window support, allowing the developer to view source code, assembly code, local and global variables, memory, and register locations at the same time. CodeRunner also supports the concurrent debugging of targets with multiple ICs and/or CPUs, providing the means to display windows for each IC/CPU on the screen simultaneously. Offering extensive macro and scripting capability, CodeRunner can interpret command files written in a structured "C"-like language.

CodeRunner is available with PCI, USB 2.0, and Ethernet JTAG controllers to provide flexibility when designing host and target environments. To meet the requirements of today's most demanding throughput applications, these controllers use a high-speed boundary-scan controller architecture based on the Corelis "Turbo Scan Engine". For those host environments where installing a PCI card is not possible or practical, Corelis offers the only high speed (480Mbps) USB 2.0 compliant JTAG controllers available for the PowerPC 400 series of processors.

With speeds of up to 533MHz, PowerPC Book E architecture and a rich peripheral mix, the PowerPC 440EP is suited for a variety of embedded applications. Its extensive feature set and robust debug capabilities are geared to real-time and other high-performance operating environments. AMCC's 440EP supports double data rate (DDR) memory, a powerful floating-point operations unit, and USB interfaces, including USB 1.1 and USB 2.0. A serial peripheral interface (SPI), allows full-duplex, synchronous data exchanges with other serial devices. The 440EP also supports up to four UARTs in a variety of configurations.

For further information, see our Corelis pages