Intel® System Debugger User Guide
Intel® System Debugger 2022 NDA Update 2246
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New Features
Target Connection Assistant
Implemented generate report functionality. The status report contains all available information including log files and dumps.
Extended live target firmware information to include further Intel® Converged Security and Management Engine (Intel® CSME) information.
Implemented preview of virtual Python* Shell project, to integrate the shell workspaces into Eclipse Project View. Option can be enabled in TCA / Python* Shell preferences.
Implemented UI option to externally sign a generated debug token. This allows customers to use their own signing infrastructure.
Intel® System Debugger - System Debug
Improved launch configuration UI to show log file path permanently.
Enable log file generation by default to simplify error reporting.
Intel® System Debugger - System Trace
Improved MIPI SyS-T parser, added support for SBD packet type and subtype
MIPI System Software Trace (SyS-T) Decoder is now supporting a subset of the SyS-T Structured Binary Data (SBD) specification. Support is implemented by processing JSON SBD data and generating custom metadata PacketTypes. SBD allows more flexible log decoding under SyS-T format, including parameter compression, custom formatting, reordering, enum descriptions, and more. For more information refer to MIPI SyS-T Specification v1.1.
Intel® Debug Extensions for WinDbg
Add debug support for Simics® simulator instances.
Updated BSOD AR generator functionality to version 1.7.2.
Fixed Issues
Target Connection Assistant
Intel® DFx Abstraction Layer (DAL) is not included starting from this release. For more information, contact Customer Support or send a message to
bringupkitnda@intel.com .Filter USB probes which are disabled in Windows* OS device manager. Support auto detection use cases with connected but disabled Lauterbach* probes.
Fix validation of Simics® simulator URL for detected local sessions.
Fixed default enablement of Target Information and Token Management for supported platforms.
Improved Simics® simulator Log View, fixed right click menu, performance and selection issues.
Improved JTAG Hardware performance, use separate worker thread to process events received by IPC API.
Intel® System Debugger - System Debug
Fix “Trace halts when AET is enable after AET configuration”
Fix “View memory context menu must be available only in BAR element types on PCI device view”
Fix missing warning message for out-of-date debugging information, whenever a path map is used.
Fix wrong image size for TE images in the modules view.
Intel® System Debugger - System Trace
Add decoder(s) path information to the console window
MIPI System Software Trace (SyS-T) Decoder will log all collateral that is loaded for trace processing. One SyS-T client will produce one line, describing these SyS-T client name (for example, BIOS, PMC) and path to the loaded XML file containing the SyS-T catalog.
Intel® Debug Extensions for WinDbg
Fixed exception on command
forensic.image_scan() while the target is in hypervisor context.Intel® Debug Extensions for WinDbg command
breakin(VMMEXIT) is not breaking in VM exit.
Intelligent Debug & Validation Tool (IDV Tool)
Fixed total capture time value reported in VCD field ‘$comment Total Cycles’, incorrect total capture time value could cause the waveform presentation issues.
Error messages reported during FPGA backup and update have been changed from generic OS errors to more meaningful ones. Now they are also suggesting possible solutions for the problems.
Fixed UI issues with inconsistent context menu in Setup Signals, sometimes the list of menu items contained duplicated entries.
Added reporting an error message in UI when when user enters invalid SGPIO clock frequency.
Added Project Config identification to platform.json file to inform user the about the file’s purpose.