Course Description

Understand the Wind River Simics debugging capabilities including logging, instruction tracing, debuggers, and advanced breakpoints. 

Course Results

After this course, participants will be able to perform the following:

1. Understanding Simics logging capabilities at each logging level
2. Exploring Simics tracing capabilities
3. Enabling a deep analysis of system behavior with the Haps system
4. Understanding the capabilities of the Simics integrated software debugger
5. Exploring advanced breakpoints and how to use them to catch specific system behaviors
6. Understanding debugger operating system awareness
7. Understanding reverse execution behaviors and capabilitiesUsing the GDB debugger with Simics 

The Course is Suited For

1. Software developers and testers 
2. System integrators and testers 

Prerequisites: 

1. Some experience with embedded software development
2. Some experience with object-oriented programming 
3. Some debugging experiences 

Course Structure

• This eLearning course consists of lectures and lab sessions.
• Viewers use VxWorks 7, Workbench 4, and Simics to gain experience with the topics presented.