I was thinking about making an ethernet to JTAG interface for debugging ARM systems. The hardwars will not be too difficult, but I was wondering is there are any open protocols to for example to debugging via gdb over ethernet->jtag. The pricing of readily available interfaces is above budget :-(
Any info or experience somewhere related to jtag debugging ?
Marcel
Sometimes a stub is written to talk to the JTAG interface and also interface to GDB. AVARICE is an example of this for the AVR JTAG Emulator.
ARM
budget
ARM
budget
The GDB remote protocol is documented in the GDB manual.
It can be sent over a serial line or TCP connection. If you have an Ethernet/TCP/IP protocol stack, you can run the standard GDB protocol there.
A different story is the JTAG protocol - it is different for each processor. The ARM7TDMI protocol is described in the ARM processor documentation.
HTH
Tauno Voipio tauno voipio @ iki fi
What is usual for the so called GDB enabled JTAG debugger boxes is that they have a firmware with GDB stub i.e. they know how to speak with GDB using open remote protocol. On the other side they know how to talk to a particular CPU using EJTAG. Thus, you can exploit the power of JTAG using GDB. This means further that because JTAG box is in control of the external CPU using JTAG you may debug the terget even if the target crashes (not the case when the GDB stub is embedded in the target's firmware).
there.
processor.
ElectronDepot website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.