The Blackhawk BH-XDS560v2 System Trace Emulator (BH560v2) is based on the new XDS560v2 system trace  reference design (XDS560v2) from Texas Instruments (TI). The XDS560v2 design is the next-generation of the high-performance XDS560-class technology first made available by Blackhawk with the USB560/LAN560. A datasheet on this emulator can be found here.

The XDS560v2 design includes both high-speed USB 2.0 and 10/100Mbit Ethernet host interfaces, multi-color state and activity LEDs and a flexible, ribbon-ized coax JTAG cable. Along with traditional JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) the XDS560v2 adds support for IEEE 1149.7 (previously known as cJTAG) and system trace (STM), an interface on the TI heterogeneous multi-core (ARM + DSP) devices, such as OMAP and DaVinci.

As with the BH-LAN560 product, the Ethernet connection of the BH560v2 allows developers share access to target boards without the need of another computer.  Migrating from a LAN560 to the Blackhawk XDS560v2 is easy.

The System Trace capability is compliant to MIPI STP.  For those that are not familiar, this expands to Mobile Industry Processor Interface  System Trace Protocol.  See www.mipi.org for more details.  Access to this capability is provided by TI CTools enabled devices for debug and optimization of multi-core processors.  This helps users look at the synchronization and timing between cores and on-chip peripherals in their application.  For more information on the CTools, please refer to the TI Wiki site at: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/CTools.

Please note that this product will support Code Composer Studio V4.2 or newer and all "Ctools" enabled devices.