Simple emulator speeds testing.(design ideas)

EDN,  September, 2003  by Gupta, Navdhish

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DESIGNING AND TESTING embedded hardware can be frustrating if you have to rely on somebody else's perhaps-unready firmware to test your hardware. Often, hardware is ready for testing before debugging and system firmware are available from software developers. Microprocessor emulators are solutions but are often expensive, hard to use, and sometimes inappropriate for use by hardware developers, who often just need to read and configure registers on devices on their boards.

If you are not primarily concerned with your processor's bus performance and need simple read and write access ...

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