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A Holiday Farewell: Reflecting on 40 Years in Embedded

Dec 22, 2025

The holidays are a time to slow down, take a deep breath, and prepare for the year ahead — and sometimes, for change. To that end, I’ve decided that after 40 years, it’s time for me to say goodbye to the embedded industry at the end of December. In 1983, I dropped out...

Tracealyzer v4.11 now available

Dec 16, 2025

We are delighted to release Percepio Tracealyzer v4.11. The main news are: Multicore streaming: Improved performance and robustness via a redesigned trace streaming framework with one channel per core. Major improvements to ESP32 support: Improved trace streaming...

From Crashes to Clarity: What’s New in Percepio Detect 2025.2

Nov 10, 2025

Think of Percepio Detect as a security camera for your firmware—always monitoring, but only storing data when something unusual happens, such as crashes or performance anomalies. By providing rich debugging information when needed while keeping the overall data volume...

Technical Blog: Remote Debugging for RTOS Firmware: How Continuous Observability Changes the Game

Sep 1, 2025

Embedded Software Observability Debugging embedded software has never been easy, but today’s systems are more complex and interconnected than ever. Real-time operating systems (RTOS) and continuous integration pipelines can make development faster—but certain classes...

Updated Guide: Using Tracealyzer with IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm

Aug 28, 2025

Using IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm with an IAR I-jet probe?Did you know this provides an excellent data channel for Tracealyzer trace streaming? We have just updated Percepio Application Note PA-023 with a simpler setup for trace streaming over ITM/SWO, enabled by...

Hands-On with Continuous Observability

Jul 29, 2025

Most developers know Tracealyzer as a powerful visualization tool for RTOS execution. But the real magic happens when combined with Percepio Detect.

Updated MPLAB X IDE Plugin

Jul 28, 2025

Updated Trace Export plugin for MPLAB X IDE We’re happy to announce that our Trace Export Plugin for MPLAB X IDE has been updated to version 2.3.1 and now supports the latest versions of Microchip’s IDE, including MPLAB X v6.20 and v6.25. This plugin enables saving...

Naming your kernel objects

Jun 24, 2025

When using Percepio Tracealyzer and TraceRecorder, you may have noticed that thread names show up automatically, while other kernel objects (like queues or semaphores) are only displayed as hexadecimal numbers. But in the demo traces, all kernel objects have proper...

Successful Launch – Then Came The Problems

Jun 9, 2025

The product launch was successful, but after a few firmware releases we received alerts from the device management system telling us that there were intermittent problems. Problems that we could not reproduce.

Tracealyzer Was Just the Beginning

May 15, 2025

If you’ve been building embedded systems for a while, chances are you know Percepio for Tracealyzer. For over a decade, Tracealyzer has been helping engineers visualize and solve complex RTOS issues But in 2025, embedded systems demand more. They’re always on. Always connected.

From Mandate to Mindset

Apr 23, 2025

Regulations like the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) are top of mind for many in the embedded software world right now, and understandably so. But as disruptive as these mandates might feel, they also present an opportunity to strengthen the software we build, far beyond compliance.

Unlocking Zephyr Debugging

Mar 5, 2025

At Percepio, we appreciate Zephyr’s hardware abstraction and kernel architecture, which make it easy to get up and running on a wide range of hardware. Thanks to this, we have validated that Percepio Tracealyzer works on over 600 Zephyr-supported development boards.

Blog – The RTOS Debug Portal

A Holiday Farewell: Reflecting on 40 Years in Embedded

Tracealyzer v4.11 now available

From Crashes to Clarity: What’s New in Percepio Detect 2025.2

Technical Blog: Remote Debugging for RTOS Firmware: How Continuous Observability Changes the Game

Updated Guide: Using Tracealyzer with IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm

Hands-On with Continuous Observability

Updated MPLAB X IDE Plugin

Naming your kernel objects

Successful Launch – Then Came The Problems

Tracealyzer Was Just the Beginning

From Mandate to Mindset

Unlocking Zephyr Debugging

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