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A novel approach for interactive debugging of dynamic dataflow embedded applications

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Kevin Pouget,

Miguel Santana,

Patricia Lopez Cueva,

Jean-François MehautAuthors Info & Claims

SAC '13: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Pages 1547 - 1549

https://doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480649

Published: 18 March 2013 Publication History

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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.

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A novel approach for interactive debugging of dynamic dataflow embedded applications
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Process validation
        Walkthroughs
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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SAC '13: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

March 2013

2124 pages

ISBN:9781450316569

DOI:10.1145/2480362

Conference Chairs:
Sung Y. Shin
South Dakota State University, United States
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José Carlos Maldonado
ICMC - University of São Paulo, Brazil

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