An eclipse plugin for preserving and reloading debug session, in domain of DSP application development

This paper presents the implementation of an Eclipse plug-in for preserving and reloading debug session, in the domain of DSP application development. The plug-in has the ability to save the state of the currently active debug session and the ability to restore it if requested. This is done by saving the state of the integrated development environment, as well as the state of the target platform on which debugging has been performed, and reloading the saved states in to a new session. Additionally, the plug-in offers the possibility to return the saved debug session specific number of debug steps back from time the state was saved, which enhances debugging experience and reduces debugging time. For the development and implementation of the plugin, PyComm library, OSGi framework, java and python programming languages were used. Validation of described implementation has been performed on existing multicore DSP applications.