Arm/Cortex Hardware-based Tools at a Glance
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Hardware-based Debuggers
Off-Chip Parallel Traces
Off-Chip Serial Traces HSSTP
Off-Chip Serial Traces PCIe



The following tool overview applies to Cortex®-A/-M/-R, Cortex®-X, Neoverse™ and SecurCore®; but also to the legacy Arm cores Arm7™, Arm9™ and Arm11™.  

Hardware-based Debuggers


    
Debug Cable		   
CombiProbe 2		   
MicroTrace
Can be used for All Arm/Cortex cores All Arm/Cortex cores Cortex-M
Multicore with other
core architectures		 Yes Yes No
Number of
physical debug ports		 1
  		 2
  		 1
  
On-chip trace
  		 Included for Cortex-M,
otherwise license required		 Included for Cortex-M,
otherwise license required		 Included
  
Off-chip trace
  
No

  		 4-bit parallel trace support for
Cortex-M and STM included		 4-bit parallel trace support
included
PowerTrace extension
possible		 Yes (requires PowerDebug X50)
  		 Yes (requires PowerDebug X50)
  		 No
  
 

Off-Chip Parallel Traces


    
Off-Chip Trace Extension
(PowerTrace and
Preprocessor AutoFocus II)		   
CombiProbe 2		   
MicroTrace
Trace data lines Up to 32 Up to 4 Up to 4
Max. speed 600+ MBit/s per data line
for a port width up to 16-bit

350 MBit/s per data line
for a port width up to 32-bit		 Up 400 MBit/s per data line Up 400 MBit/s per data line
Max. trace buffer size Up to 8 GByte 512 MByte 256 MByte
Max. trace streaming 400 MByte/s 200 MByte/s 200 MByte/s
Core trace All Arm/Cortex cores Cortex-M only Cortex-M only
Instrumentation trace Yes Yes Yes
 

Off-Chip Serial Traces HSSTP


    
Off-Chip Trace Extension
(PowerTrace and
Preprocessor Aurora)		   
Off-Chip Trace Extension
(PowerTrace Serial
Aurora 12.5 Gbit/s)		   
Off-Chip Trace Extension
(PowerTrace Serial
Aurora 22.5 Gbit/s)
Trace data lanes Up to 4 Up to 8 Up to 4
Max. speed 4 lanes @ 5.00 Gbit/s
otherwise @ 6.25 Gbit/s		 Up to 12.5 Gbit/s per lane Up to 22.5 Gbit/s per lane
Max. Trace buffer size Up to 8 GByte 4 GByte 4 GByte
Max. trace streaming 400 MByte/s 400 MByte/s 400 MByte/s
Core trace All Arm/Cortex cores All Arm/Cortex cores All Arm/Cortex cores
Instrumentation trace Yes Yes Yes
 

Off-Chip Serial Traces PCIe


    
Off-Chip Trace Extension
(PowerTrace Serial
PCIe)
Trace data lanes Up to 8
Max. speed Up to 8 Gbit/s per lane
(PCIe Gen 3)
Max. Trace buffer size 4 GByte
Max. trace streaming 400 MByte/s
Core trace All Arm/Cortex cores
Instrumentation trace Yes




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