myTek Online Webinars

Embedded Systems

Debugging and Verifying DDR & DDR2 Memory for Reliable System Operation
Duration: 17 min 30 sec
In this session we cover mainstream memory technologies as used in today's embedded systems and explain how DDR2 SDRAMs and the next generation of memories will be used in future embedded designs. We will discuss how they are implemented using fast edges, high clock frequencies and low voltages that require careful verification and testing to ensure reliable memory system operation. Followed by an investigation of effective ways to validate and to debug DDR and DDR2 memory in your embedded systems designs.

Taking the Complexity Out of Debugging Microcontrollers
Duration: 30 min 20 sec
This session addresses the challenges of increasing system complexity and the need to deliver more in less time that are a part of today's digital world by discussing specific measurement techniques for verifying serial communications links between the microcontroller and peripheral chips. We will discuss how to view design complexities and interactions at a system level by monitoring a wide variety of signals, visualizing them at different levels of abstraction, and understanding their timing relationships.

Embedded Design Techniques for Optimizing Control Parameters
Duration: 19 min 47 sec
In this session we explore the process of optimizing control functions, small adjustments in microcontroller firmware can produce significant improvements in embedded system performance. Coming up with the right values for gains, offsets, delays, hysteresis values and PWM parameters can be time consuming, but using the right tools can speed the process. With a mixed signal oscilloscope, especially one with deep memory, you efficiently gain access to insights of your process including sensor signals, feedback signals and firmware timing.

Efficiently Triggering, Debugging and Decoding Low-Speed Serial Buses
Duration: 24 min 19 sec
This tutorial will provide you with some valuable information on the growing popularity of serial buses and the new approaches to debugging and analyzing that they require. Specifically we will be looking at four low-speed serial buses: I²C, SPI, CAN and LIN.

Simplifying Xilinx and Altera FPGA Debug
Duration: 24 min 24 sec
This session addresses the FPGA debugging challenges found in many of today's embedded designs and explains how choosing the right FPGA debug methodology can reduce debug and validation time. We will explore the advantages and disadvantages of test equipment alternates and how to take advantage of easier to use and less intrusive FPGA debug methodologies.

Solutions to Embedded System Design Challenges
In this session we will examine ways to improve productivity in embedded system validation and debug. Part I (Duration: 17 min 40 sec) focuses on what can be done in the early design cycle to improve productivity. Part II (Duration: 19 min 49 sec) highlights tips that can be used in the lab to save time and improve productivity.