Change History
This page contains update summary of three previous releases. To check full Release Notes for previous product versions:
Online: open the online book and expand the Version drop-down menu on the top-left.
Offline: go to the Intel® System Debugger download page at Intel® Products and select a required version from the drop-down menu.
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.
Intel® System Debugger 2022 NDA Update 2222
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New Features
- Target Connection Assistant
Updated Intel® System Debugger to use latest Eclipse* IDE 2022-03 base.
Improve documentation, use user guide in Intel® System Debugger Eclipse*
- Intel® System Debugger - System Debug
New Symbol Browser View.
Add debug and breakpoint controls to Debug & Trace perspective
- Intel® System Debugger - System Trace
Capture OpenIPC logs with TraceCLI early boot script
- Intelligent Debug & Validation Tool (IDV Tool)
Added signal pin remapping dialog window.
- Debug GdbServer* proxy
Added support for Zephyr 2.7 based Intel® Internet of Things Group (IOTG) Intel® Programmable Services Engine (Intel® PSE) SDK.
Fixed Issues
- Target Connection Assistant
Fixed out of sync ipccli in ISD shell after ipc.forcereconfig() command
Fixed stack trace caused by file not found on startup of Eclipse
Fixed shutdown process of ISD CLI in eclipse, should not set error code anymore
Fixed OpenIPC selection on re-usage of existing workspace, prevent accidental storing of default IPC provider path
- Intel® System Debugger - System Trace
Fixed trace support on Elkhart Lake
Reduced package loss issues related to high bandwidth tracing
Fixed capture view button behavior in case of missing project
- Intel® Debug Extensions for WinDbg
Removed deprecated command forensic.get_kernel_base().
- Intelligent Debug & Validation Tool (IDV Tool)
Use unique SGPIO names (CLK, LOAD_N, DOUT, DIN) for pins 37 to 40.
Fixed SGPIO signals in “Setup Signals” tab can not be enabled/disabled as a group.
Fixed sporadic hang of IDV Tool when no trigger conditions are defined and capturing is stopped manually.
Intel® System Debugger 2022 NDA Update 2214
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New Features
- Target Connection Assistant
Added remote debug support for hardware platforms. The connection flow in GUI and CLI is updated to allow you debug a hardware platform connected to a remote host. Refer to the Get Started chapter in documentation for step-by-step instructions.
- Intelligent Debug & Validation Tool (IDV Tool)
Introduced advanced rule creation functionality. Now all rules are aggregated in a single Rule tab (instead of multiple tabs). Refer to Intel® System Debugger documentation for updated instructions on creating rules.
Fixed Issues
- Intel® System Debugger - System Debug
Fixed issues that caused crashes if Intel® System Debugger was disconnected right after connecting to a Simics® simulator.
- Intel® Debug Extensions for WinDbg
Fixed loading full kernel dump for Elkhart Lake platforms.
Fixed the forensic.get_kernel_base() command performance.
- Intelligent Debug & Validation Tool (IDV Tool)
Fixed duplicated rule IDs
Enabled creating alias names for rules.