Hmmm I have 20+ years of embedded sw programming experience and can tell you the reason that embedded software is oftentimes not easily debugged using a debugger, is the crappyness of the debugger solution (debug probe, its firmware and its eco system). Also, high end embedded ICs often contain a serious amount if silicon bugs. The fact that it needs to run real-time, is mostly not in the way of the debugging process. In other words, embedded processors and their eco systems tend to be sub-par in terms of developer friendlyness. Addendum SHARC ADSP anomaly list https://www.analog.com/media/en/dsp-documentation/integrated...