Trace Extensions

OVERVIEW

Get Full Insights of Your Embedded System

Trace based debugging adds a powerful set of features to complement and enhance your existing debug tools. Many modern devices include a trace port which is capable of providing real-time, non-intrusive information about program flow and data operations. This can be used to work out where code has been, how long things took, to analyze task switches, interrupts, and to generate code coverage reports. If you think of traditional debugging as a series of snapshots, then trace-based debugging is a video with timestamps.

All TRACE32® trace tools also include an option for logic trace: digital, analogue, or mixed-signal. This enables the cross-triggering of software and hardware events, traditional logic and protocol analysis, and power consumption measurements, all from within your favorite debug environment.

PowerTrace Serial  | Serial Trace Embedded Systems |  Lauterbach

PowerTrace System

Extend your PowerDebug system with PowerTrace and incorporate high bandwidth trace recording and analysis capabilities into your TRACE32 debug system. You can easily migrate between targets with the user swappable pre-processors, supporting all parallel and serial trace protocols.

CombiProbe MIPI |  Lauterbach

CombiProbe Compact Trace

Leverage the power of a full trace system that’s geared towards your low-end to mid-range embedded design. The CombiProbe 2 is a hybrid debug and trace system that provides the full TRACE32 feature set to embedded systems with a trace port of up to 4 bits wide. It’s powerful enough to trace multiple cores in an SoC or two separate devices.

WHAT IS TRACE

Why real-time tracing?

Program flow trace shows you exactly which instructions have been executed and how long it took to execute them. By using real-time tracing you can:

  • easily create code coverage reports from this data, 
  • quickly locate timing bottlenecks in your code or prove that it meets any required deadlines, 
  • capture a complete picture of those hard-to-find bugs that only occur infrequently at run-time.

All of this without interfering with the application being tested.

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