A novel approach for interactive debugging of dynamic dataflow embedded applications

  • Authors:

  • Kevin Pouget;Miguel Santana;Patricia Lopez Cueva;Jean-François Mehaut

  • Affiliations:

  • STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France and University of Grenoble, CEA, LIG, Grenoble, France;STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France;STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France and University of Grenoble, CEA, LIG, Grenoble, France;University of Grenoble, CEA, LIG, Grenoble, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new approach for source-level dataflow debuggers. Going beyond their long-established ability to support sequential programming languages, we describe the functionalities a debugger should be able to provide to debug embedded and parallel dataflow applications. Then we demonstrate our solution to this problem with a proof-of-concept debugger targeting the dataflow framework used on an industrial MPSoC platform. We also explain the development challenges we faced during the implementation of this GDB-based debugger.