AMD Hardware Debug Tool Alpha 9.8

AMD Hardware Debug Tool Alpha is an early-access utility from Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. designed to help developers diagnose, bring up, and validate AMD-based platforms. It offers a unified, low-level view of hardware state, enabling faster isolation of issues across firmware, drivers, and the operating system. Built for lab environments, it emphasizes safe inspection workflows while providing the depth needed for silicon, firmware, and system-level debugging.

Key capabilities:

• Real-time visibility into clocks, thermals, power, and selected performance counters on supported AMD platforms
• Register-level inspection with read-first safeguards and optional guarded writes for controlled testing
• Event tracing and logging to capture and correlate machine checks, error codes, PCIe and memory events, and firmware handoffs with precise timestamps
• Board bring-up assistance, including device enumeration, link training status, memory topology snapshots, and SMBIOS/ACPI table browsing
• Scripting and automation via a command-line interface and an extensible plugin model for integration with existing validation workflows
• Cross-platform support for Windows and Linux, with drivers that require administrative privileges
• Data export to common formats (for example, CSV and JSON) to streamline collaboration with support teams and internal trackers

Because this is an alpha release, features, performance, and compatibility are subject to change. The tool is intended for experienced personnel in controlled environments and is not recommended for production use. For access, documentation, and the latest list of supported platforms, contact your AMD representative.

AMD Hardware Debug Tool Alpha is developed by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 7.7, 9.1, 9.2 and 9.8. The name of the program executable file is HDTApplication.exe.