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"Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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> I've never used nor seen such a tool. Can you provides more information
> about what it can be used for ? How can it helps debugging ?
>

I have not looked a the details about what this tool provide but at a high
level I can say that this
could be really useful for "system level" debugging/analysis information.
What I mean is that in many systems, one ends
up creating some sort of data logging interface that keeps track of either
inputs to some top level module and/or
intermediate calculations to better understand how the system is operating.
Sounds like this would be a quick way
to get this information out more easily. It probably will not be as quick as
some of the hand/rolled solutions (which
dump data in a raw binary format for later offline expansion to ASCII) but
still useful in some cases.