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<h3>Eclipse TCF (Target Communication Framework)</h3>

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TCF is a lightweight, extensible network protocol for driving embedded systems (targets).
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On top of the protocol, TCF provides a complete modern debugger for C/C++ and Ada, as well as the "Target Explorer" 
for file transfer and system management. TCF works out of the box for Intel, PPC and ARM Linux targets 
including the Raspberry Pi. It supports Proxying and Tunneling for IoT devices, and is particularly strong 
for multi-process debugging even with slow communication links.
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The TCF Framework makes it very easy to build your own tools using the components provided:
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  <li>The lightweight <i>agent</i> under EDL / BSD license is written in C, and very easy to port or embed
      in custom OS's or "bare metal"" hardware debuggers and simulators.</li>
  <li>DWARF reader and Symbol Services are written in C and can be used independent of the debugger.</li>
  <li>TCF Language Bindings for C, Java, Python and Lua allow driving your tools from scripts.</li>
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<p>See the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/TCF">TCF Wiki</a> for details.
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A reference Eclipse view is available today to help you get started, as well as a complete C/C++ debugger for Linux.
The lightweight reference agent under EDL / BSD license is easy to port to other environments such as 
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<h3>Current Status</h3>
<p>TCF 1.3 is released with Eclipse Mars, June 2015.</p>
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<h3>TCF Terminals</h3>
<p><i>April 25, 2014 -</i>TCF Terminals has been restructured and is now on the <a href="http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/tm-terminal">Marketplace</a>.
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<h3>News:<br/>
TCF Debug supports ARM</h3>
<p><i>March 25, 2013 -</i>Initial <a href="http://tmober.blogspot.com/2013/03/eclipsecon-2013-tcf-arm-debugging-and.html">
ARM debugging support</a> has been added to TCF. Look at the <a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/TCF/Raspberry_Pi">Raspberry Pi HOWTO</a>.
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<h3>TCF Testimonials</h3>
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By replacing a gdb based debugger with TCF, Xilinx has increased the performance
of basic debugger commands up to 50 times, while providing a much more stable product.<br/>
The modular and asynchronous approach of TCF is so compelling that we are moving
over our JTAG tools to use the same framework.</i><br/><br/>
&mdash; Tomas Evensen, Chief Scientist Embedded Software, Xilinx</p>
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