Currently available microcomputer development systems/tools become rather inefficient when employed to debug real-time malfunctions; that is, intermittent or even unrepeatable hardware/software malfunctions encountered in time-critical applications. A new debugging technique, namely the Action-replay Debugging Technique, is proposed which can efficiently deal with a large class of these malfunctions. The aim of the Action-replay Debugging Technique is to provide an environment which is suitable for real-time debugging. In particular, an identical processor to the target, or a simulator of it, is forced to re-execute, or Action-replay, repeatedly and at any desirable speed the exact program path which the target processor traversed during the original interaction wi th its real-time environment. During successive "Action-replays" the user can investigate the system's behaviour (including timing characteristics) without real-time constraints which normally exist in time-critical applications.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:259117 |
| Date | January 1981 |
| Creators | Kanellopoulos, Nikos Gregory K. |
| Publisher | University of Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2101 |
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