Patent ID: 8402442
Filing Date: 2013-03-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for operating a plurality of debugger tools in an electronic system, the method comprising: inputting a first tool-specific command to a first of the debugger tools, the first tool-specific command formatted for the first debugger tool and referencing a component of a respective set of one or more components controlled by a second one of the debugger tools, wherein each of the debugger tools provides control over a respective set of one or more components of the electronic system, and each debugger tool comprises at least one of a hardware debugger, an embedded systems debugger, a hardware description languages (HDL) simulator/debugger, or a hardware co-simulation simulator, and each debugger tool recognizes a respective set of tool-specific commands for operating the debugger tool, and the tool-specific commands are incompatible between debugger tools; in response to the first debugger tool determining that the first tool-specific command references the component of the respective set controlled by the second debugger tool, forwarding the first tool-specific command to a common debugger executing on a computing arrangement; translating the first tool-specific command into a tool-specific command that is compatible with the second debugger; outputting the translated tool-specific command from the common debugger to the second debugger tools; and performing the translated tool-specific command by the second debugger tools.