Category: Arium Probes | SourcePoint™

Practical uses of Trace features in debug of complex systems

Alan Sguigna

April 4, 2016
7:15 am

Programmers debugging BIOS (known as UEFI today) have debugged complex systems without using any Trace features for 20 years. This is all about to change.

ASSET Joins the UEFI Forum

Alan Sguigna

March 27, 2016
4:04 pm

As the UEFI Forum continues to make advances in the technology behind what is still called the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), ASSET has joined this standards body to assist in the debug of its latest features.

Intel BIOS Training Videos

Alan Sguigna

March 13, 2016
4:40 pm

If you are a beginning BIOS engineer, manage BIOS engineers, or even an expert who just needs a refresher, these great UEFI videos from Intel are worthwhile watching.

Performance of Intel Customer Scripts (CScripts)

Alan Sguigna

March 6, 2016
8:52 pm

In a previous blog, I shared some prospective information on the real-time performance of Intel CScripts, when run on our SourcePoint debugger, versus legacy methods. This article contains quantitative measurements, and supports the theory that SourcePoint yields much higher throughput.

Intel Cscripts and SourcePoint help bring up new designs faster

Larry Osborn

February 24, 2016
11:25 am

Catastrophic errors (IERR) on Intel-based systems

Alan Sguigna

December 20, 2015
5:15 pm

Catastrophic events within an Intel processor will often manifest themselves with a “hung” or “wedged” system. What causes these events, and how can they be resolved?