Before looking at other aspects of WDM drivers, it is worth while looking at how to test and debug drivers. This chapter explains how to use the DebugPrint tool that comes with the book software. This ...

Part two explains the workings of the JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) boundary-scan technology. In software development, perhaps the most critical, yet least predictable stage in the process is debugging. Many ...

Modern multithreaded, asynchronous code can be hard to debug. The complexity that comes with message passing and thread management results in bugs that can seem non-determinant, with little or no way ...

Back in the day, we'd write some code, compile, execute, see what happened and repeat. That was testing. (Sometimes that's still what testing looks like, for better or worse.) Today, we can do a lot ...

This chapter discusses how completed die are tested. The chapter describes the validation of the design, the root causes and the fixing of design bugs, and the testing flow to identify manufacturing ...

In increasingly complex SoC designs, many of which contain multiple cores and multiple modes, determining best practices for testing and debugging is a moving target. Jason Andrews, architect at ...

The word syntax means the order of elements in a language sentence. The language can be a familiar one like English or a coding language. A syntax bug is one that involves typing mistakes and errors ...