11.12 Review

You should now:

• Recognize that the emphasis here is not on the design of software but on its implementation, testing, and debugging
• Know the details of the various software development processes
• Appreciate why real-time software requires a wide range of development tools, both software, and hardware
• Realize that software may be tested and debugged within three major environments: host, target, and host-as-target
• Understand the nature, facilities, advantages, and drawbacks of the various development environments
• Appreciate the features, application, and outline the use of the following:

  a. Software debuggers

  b. Hardware debuggers

  c. ICEs

  d. Logic analyzers

  e. OCD tools and techniques

  f. Memory device programmers and emulators

• Understand how in-target analysis tools can be used for performance analysis, code coverage analysis, and code regression testing
• Know what to expect in modern IDEs