LAUTERBACH AND NANOXPLORE ENABLE SPACE INNOVATIONS

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Lauterbach TRACE32® debug and trace tools now support NanoXplore’s latest radiation hardened FPGA SoC, the NG ULTRA. TRACE32 support includes simultaneous debugging of all Arm® Cortex R52 CPU cores as well as non intrusive CPU trace capture, profiling, performance analysis, and support of many RTOS to ensure the required quality of embedded designs for space applications.

NanoXplore’s NG ULTRA FPGA SoC is designed for the space market, with the co mponent’s high performance and radiation hardened technology making it a prime choice for payload systems and platform applications. The NG ULTRA contains four Arm® Cortex R52 cores with clock frequencies up to 600 MHz and is able to run a wide variety of operating systems, from Xtrautum by FenTiss, with RTEMS or Linux partitions, to MPike OS by Sysgo and FreeRTOS. In addition to the SoC, a complete SDK is provided, containing a generic build system, ready to use drivers, and numerous examples, all on a widely accessible Gitlab repository.

Lauterbach’s TRACE32® enables hardware accelerated debugging and real time tracing of all the Arm® Cortex R52 cores. TRACE32® tools consist of the universal PowerView debugging and tracing software as well as debug and trace accelerator modules. While Lauterbach’s intelligent PowerDebug modules provide the highest available download speeds and smallest response times for efficient debugging and test automation, PowerTrace real time trace modules provide full insights of what the CPUs are doing without impacting its real time performance in any way. Trace analysis including code coverage measurements can support in bringing embedded NG ULTRA designs to market faster, safer, and more reliably than ever. Both partners have created a large number of scripts to unleash the powerful capabilities of TRACE32® combined with NG ULTRA out of the box. This includes the ability to retrieve traces using either ETF, ETR, TPIU and STM.