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Category: Arium Probes | SourcePoint™

Embedded Run-Control for Power-On Self Test

Alan Sguigna
Alan Sguigna
  • 5:07 pm
High-end, mission-critical systems often use a plethora of diagnostic routines for power-on self test (POST), data logging, operational measurements, Built-In Self Test (BIST), and platform audits. Embedded x86 JTAG run-control adds out-of-band services to this mix. This article describes one such use case for Power-On Self Test (POST) of PCI Express ports.

Spectre, Meltdown, and embedded MSR access

Alan Sguigna
Alan Sguigna
  • 6:52 am
In the article JTAG and run-control API in BMCs for at-scale debug, I described how embedding the Intel ITP run-control library down on a service processor provides for a rich set of target-based functions for debug forensics. How might this apply to reading MSRs, such as the ones created to address Spectre and Meltdown.

The MinnowBoard Chronicles Episode 25: Yocto builds for the MinnowBoard and the Portwell Neptune Alpha

Alan Sguigna
Alan Sguigna
  • 7:05 am
In Episode 24, I finished off my new build machine, successfully did a QEMU image build on it, and loaded an off-the-shelf Ubuntu image into my new MinnowBoard Turbot. This week, I tackled a MinnowBoard Linux image build using Yocto, loaded it into my MinnowBoard, and also set about doing a Yocto image build for the Portwell Neptune Alpha board. But I ran into some problems.

SourcePoint supports Intel Coffee Lake processors

Alan Sguigna
Alan Sguigna
  • 5:08 pm
Intel® has announced the new family of 8th Gen Intel Core desktop processors, available for purchase beginning October 5, 2017. ASSET's SourcePoint has supported the 8th Gen (codenamed Coffee Lake) since earliest silicon.
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