Intel® System Debugger User Guide

ID Date Version Classification
648476 10/17/2024 Confidential
Document Table of Contents

Intel® System Debugger 2022 NDA Update 2226

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New Features

Target Connection Assistant
  • Added an aligned Reset control which can be used from all tools within Intel® System Debugger without an active debug session.

  • Implemented a new connect and disconnect button which toggles the state and uses move intuitive icons.

  • Added filter for connected probes to manual connection configuration selection dialog.

  • Increased Eclipse* Python* Shell command line buffer to minimum 5000 lines.

Intel® System Debugger - System Debug
  • New System Debug CLI entry point “intel_​sysdbg” is available. New System Debug CLI command “sysdbg.launch_​and_​connect()” is available to launch a System Debug instance and connect the CLI to it automatically from the Intel® System Debugger CLI.

Intel® System Debugger - System Trace
  • Integrated the memory management library that would let the users limit the amount of memory decoding process uses.

Intel® Debug Extensions for WinDbg
  • Added debug support for pre-NT environment.

Intelligent Debug & Validation Tool (IDV Tool)
  • Added undo and redo capabilities to rule edit view.

  • Added support for multiple rule notes.

Fixed Issues

Intel® System Debugger - System Debug
  • Fixed issue with bitfield values of registers not showing correctly when the System Debug is connected to a Simics® simulator platform.

  • Fixed issue with Memory View not being able to successfully write a value into physical memory.

Intel® System Debugger - System Trace
  • Fixed reload button in Trace Capture view which reloads the target settings for System Trace UI.

  • Fixed an issue where Message view was not showing filtered results when applied from Rules view.

  • Fixed sporadic null pointer exception dialog during start trace.

Intelligent Debug & Validation Tool (IDV Tool)
  • Fixed an issue where sending a manual start and stop triggers could break serial communication with FPGA.

  • Fixed copy, paste, drag and drop issues of rules within groups. Only apply a change for the selected rules, not for the parental groups.