Title :
Cell Broadband Engine Debugging for Unknown Events
Author :
Riley, Mack W. ; Genden, Mike
Author_Institution :
IBM Corp., Austin
Abstract :
The complexity of today´s hundreds-of-million-transistor microprocessors all but guarantees imperfect first silicon, but leaves unanswered the question of what exactly will go wrong. This article describes features added to the cell broadband engine processor to enable debugging in the presence of such unknown events.
Keywords :
logic design; microprocessor chips; program debugging; cell broadband engine debugging; logic design; transistor microprocessor; Art; Bandwidth; Debugging; Engines; History; Logic design; Random access memory; Streaming media; Testing; Yarn; Cell Broadband Engine; debugging; high-speed processors; unknown events;
Journal_Title :
Design & Test of Computers, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MDT.2007.157
