Temporal debugging and profiling of multimedia applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4673, Issue , 2002, Pages 196-207

  Albertsson, Lars ^a  

^a SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Complete system simulation; GDB; Linux; Operating systems; Real time profiling; Simics; Soft real time systems; Temporal debugging

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA STRUCTURES; DECODING; IMAGE CODING; JITTER; PROGRAM DEBUGGING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

TEMPORAL DEBUGGING;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036030062     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.449980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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