The main MIPS processor of SMP8630 comes with a JTAG interface, allowing: access to caches and data bus (DRAM) with a bandwidth of about 200kbit/s examining the processor state whatever the execution mode (monice) connecting to monice using mdi-server and using a gdb client on the processor to step and break accurately whatever the execution mode running semi-hosted applications fl ash write tool memory testing (MT command) real-time traces: has not been built in CPU (Config3_TL=0) and only supported by MajicPLUS probes (maybe built into emulator?)