Zero To One Hundred
This fall, a team of dedicated students at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, sets out to construct a driverless electric car. It is the eighth iteration of the school’s Revolve project and the first one that Percepio sponsors.
Arm Tech Symposia, Taiwan 1–2 Nov
The Arm Tech Symposia is an annual event designed to share the latest Arm technology roadmap, the up-to-date diverse Arm based devices and applications. This November, the Symposia come to Taiwan for two events – 1 Nov in Taipei and 2 Nov in Hsinchu – and Percepio's local distributor Microtime will attend both events. If [...]
Identifying Memory Leaks Through Tracing
Have you ever seen your embedded system behave strangely and had that sinking feeling that you might have a memory leak? Tracealyzer offers several different methods to detect memory leaks.
Yes, it is actually rocket science
The cool thing about studying in Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost city, is that you may get to blast stuff into space on a rocket. The city is home to Esrange, a vast commercial and research rocket range, and the local technical university takes advantage of that with a menu of suitable courses, with names like "Spacecraft [...]
Verifying Task Timing and Scheduling
Quite a few embedded software developers don’t know whether their applications meet their timing requirements. In today's Tracealyzer Hands On post, we will explore how to use Tracealyzer to verify task timing and scheduling.
Arm TechCon 16–18 October
Percepio will not attend this year's Arm TechCon but it will still be quite the experience: three days packed with seminars and classes on topics like embedded software, chip design, security, and much more. The conference will be at the San Jose Convention Center, right in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Academics everywhere enjoy free Tracealyzer
India, Norway, France … there has been a flurry of interest around Percepio’s free academic Tracealyzer licenses lately. End of summer and beginning of the fall semester probably plays a role here, as does our announcement a few weeks ago. One of the free licenses was awarded to Anil Joseph, student at the Birla Institute [...]
WNIE in Birmingham 25-26 September
WNIE Live, or What's New In Electronics – Live, takes place in Birmingham, UK, on the 25 & 26 September. Percepio is present at the exhibition through our UK distributor Phaedrus Systems; you are welcome to drop by their booth if you are in the area. Phaedrus' Chris Hills will also give a talk on [...]
Running Tracealyzer 4 on Linux hosts
To run Tracealyzer 4 on Linux, the first thing you'll need is Tracealyzer version 4.2 or later. Next, you need to install Mono. For most distributions there's a package called "mono-complete", though some distributions and package systems may instead use simply "mono". There may be additional requirements, in particular for Debian/Ubuntu- and Fedora-based systems. See [...]
Tracealyzer 4.2 – New Trace View, Runs on Linux
Tracealyzer version 4.2 features a completely rewritten main trace view, and adds support for, among other things, Wittenstein SafeRTOS and tracing via ST-LINK debug probes. It also runs on Linux, so embedded developers using Linux hosts are now able to upgrade to the new generation of Tracealyzer.
Sept. 26 – Secure Bootloader Design
Secure bootloaders require specialized knowledge in disparate disciplines such as driver software, middleware, cryptography, security and cloud computing just to name a few subjects. On September 26, embedded consultant and evangelistJacob Beningo will host a free webinar where attendees will explore the major components and processes necessary to implement a secure bootloader. You can choose [...]
Tracealyzer 4.2 with Improved Trace View and Support for Linux, SafeRTOS
Västerås, Sweden, 6 September 2018 * * * Percepio, the leader in software trace visualization for embedded systems and IoT, announces Tracealyzer version 4.2. The new release features a completely rewritten main trace view, and brings official support for running on Linux.
Analyzing communication and data flow in an unknown software stack
One of the biggest problems in embedded development today is understanding what a software stack or demo that you didn’t write is doing. In this post, we’ll examine how we can find this out using the Tracealyzer communication flow diagram.
Percepio supports education with free Tracealyzer licenses
Västerås, Sweden, 3rd September 2018 * * * Percepio, the leader in software trace visualization for embedded systems and IoT, announces the immediate availability of free Tracealyzer site licenses for higher engineering education.
Percepio supports the next generation of embedded engineers
Percepio has its roots in academia, Mälardalens Högskola in Västerås, Sweden, to be precise, and we have long supported both technical universities and their students with heavily discounted Tracealyzer licenses. Today we are taking this to the next level with the launch of a completely free site license for qualifying schools. "The embedded community has [...]
Synopsys ARC Processor Summit, Sept 11
This free one-day event consists of three parallel tracks in which Synopsys experts, ecosystem partners and the ARC user community will deliver technical presentations on a range of topics, including, artificial intelligence (AI), automotive safety, internet of things (IoT), embedded vision and much, much more. Percepio CEO Johan Kraft opens the Mobile/Storage track with his [...]
Tracealyzer – more than a debugging tool
In our new blog series Hands On, which launches today, we will examine many ways that developers can Tracealyzer besides debugging.
Tracing Amazon FreeRTOS and AWS IoT
When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched their IoT platform Amazon FreeRTOS last November, Percepio was one of four launch partners presented on stage. This week AWS published an article about AWS IoT development using Amazon FreeRTOS, Percepio Tracealyzer and the NXP OM40007 IoT kit, written by Percepio CEO and founder Johan Kraft. "Tracing Amazon FreeRTOS [...]
Microchip MASTERs 2018
Percepio will not attend the Microchip MASTERs conference(s) this year (although we did last year) but Tracealyzer will still feature in some Microchip classes, we're told. And if that's not reason enough to go, there are lots of other reasons – the European conference alone features over 80 classes on topics ranging from firmware design [...]
Version 4.1.5 adds IAR streaming support
We are happy to announce an update of Tracealyzer, v4.1.5, bringing trace streaming support for IAR Embedded Workbench, allowing IAR users to fully benefit from the powerful capabilities of Tracealyzer 4 using IAR I-Jet probes. This leverages the ITM module found on most Arm Cortex-M3, M4 and M7 MCUs. With a fast debug [...]
Improved Tracealyzer Support for IAR Embedded Workbench and Renesas Synergy MCUs
Västerås, Sweden, 5th July 2018 * * * Percepio, the leader in software trace visualization for embedded systems and IoT, today announced improved Tracealyzer streaming support for Renesas Synergy MCUs and IAR Embedded Workbench.
Tracing exceptions in Keil RTX5
When debugging or profiling your firmware, it is often important to trace Interrupt Service Routines (ISRs) such as timer interrupts or interrupts from communication interfaces. However, using a classic ”printf” call is typically not an option since it may increase the execution time of the ISR by orders of magnitude. The integrated ”exception trace” support [...]
We are Moving
Tomorrow Friday is a special day here at Percepio HQ – we're moving offices. We are not moving very far, the new office is a ten-minute walk from our current one, but it is absolutely a step up for the company. We'll have our own offices with plenty of space to grow (and we are [...]
An Unexpected Customer Meeting
I (Mike) was travelling to Barcelona for the RISC-V Workshop earlier this month. As I walked through the Barcelona airport I looked up and saw some big ass fans. I took a quick picture, enlarged the logo, and sure enough – it really was a Big Ass Fan! It's always cool to see a Tracealyzer customer's [...]
Tracing a drone flight
Percepio's Senior Drone Builder and Support Engineer Niclas Lindblom with his Embedded World drone. We knew we had to have something special. We knew we were going to show Tracealyzer 4 at Embedded World 2018, and we wanted the world to take notice – it was after all the largest improvement in at [...]
Tracealyzer v4.1 – Micrium and Arm ITM support
Percepio has released Tracealyzer version 4.1 with support for Micrium µC/OS-III. We have also added support for RTOS tracing via Arm's ITM interface (Instrumentation Trace Macrocell), that allows very fast streaming of software trace data with low overhead. “Tracealyzer 4 is such a massive improvement over previous versions and as we have been working closely [...]
Tracealyzer 4 Now Supports Micrium µC/OS-III and ARM ITM
Västerås, Sweden, 7th May 2018 * * * Percepio, the leader in software trace visualization for embedded systems and IoT, announces Tracealyzer version 4.1 with support for Micrium µC/OS-III, in addition to the already supported Amazon FreeRTOS and Keil RTX5. “Tracealyzer 4 is a massive improvement over previous versions and as we have been working [...]
Tracealyzer streaming over ARM ITM using ULINKpro/ULINKplus
Good news! As of version 4.1 (just released) Tracealyzer supports ITM tracing for ARM Cortex-M3, M4 and M7 MCUs. This is initially available for FreeRTOS and Micrium µC/OS-III, but support is planned for SafeRTOS and ThreadX soon. With a fast debug probe like Keil ULINKpro or ULINKplus, ITM allows for high data rates and low [...]
GDPR: Protecting Your Personal Data
You may have heard about the General Data Protection Regulation, better known as GDPR, which is the new regulatory framework for managing personal data of European Union citizens; it comes into force on 25 May, 2018. Since Percepio is based in Sweden, which is a member of the European Union, and have a lot of [...]
Let Tracealyzer show you the big picture
When you open a trace in Tracealyzer, it usually opens to the vertical timeline. This view, which shows all activity in the system, is in many ways the core of Tracealyzer and most of the other views link back to the timeline, but with its massive amount of information it is not always the best [...]
Learn RTOS Programming in Four Days
Percepio's European training partner MicroConsult in Munich, Germany, offers an extensive 4-day course in RTOS architecture and programming. The course, aptly named "RTOS Mechanisms and their Application in Runtime Architectures for Embedded and Real-time Systems", covers a broad range of topics. General Introduction: Real-time Operating System Process/Thread/Task Management Interrupt Management Time Management Coordination Mechanisms: Synchronization [...]
Find the Tracealyzer license that suits you
This spring has seen the release of Tracealyzer 4, Percepio's most significant update to Tracealyzer so far, but that is not all. We have also simplified our licensing options and introduced some new ones, including an all-inclusive subscription license that allows you to use Tracealyzer with all of our supported operating systems. No matter what [...]
Taking on the Top Ten Bugs
"Top Ten" is a well-tested catch phrase that can be attached to restaurants in London, high buildings over the world and, well, just about anything. And rest assured there's also a list of the Top Ten Bugs in Firmware. Written by industry veteran Michael Barr, former editor-in-chief of Embedded Systems Programming magazine and author of [...]
Tracealyzer 4 is here
We have talked about it for six months, and worked on it for much longer than that, but today it is finally here - Tracealyzer 4! Starting today, you can download the new version of Percepio's powerful visualization tool and try it out for yourself. If you use Tracealyzer today, the first thing you will [...]
Industry leaders praise Tracealyzer 4 at Embedded World
Tracealyer 4 took Embedded World by storm. Interest was intense and people were really impressed. During the show, we asked seven industry leaders if we could film their reaction to Tracealyzer 4. All agreed, and this is the result … Tracealyzer 4 brings five major improvements: Brand new user interface – fresh, [...]
Percepio Announces Tracealyzer 4 With a New User Interface and Stunning Live Views
Västerås, Sweden, 20th February 2018 * * * Percepio announces a major update of Tracealyzer, its industry-leading tool for visual software tracing of RTOS-based embedded systems and IoT devices. Tracealyzer version 4 has been redesigned from the bottom up.
Using Tracealyzer with Cypress PSoC devices
In collaboration with Cypress Semiconductors, Percepio Tracealyzer® now supports Cypress PSoC® MCUs, including the hardware profiler unit in the new PSoC® 6 family. Percepio Application Note PA-019 describes in detail how to get started with Tracealyzer on Cypress PSoC® MCUs and Cypress PSoC Creator. The example is for PSoC 6, Cypress' most recent MCU family, but except for [...]
Percepio and Cypress Debuts Tracealyzer Support for Cypress PSoC 6 at Embedded World
Västerås, Sweden, 15th February 2018 * * * Percepio announces Tracealyzer support for Cypress’ most recent MCU family PSoC® 6, allowing embedded IoT developers to visualize RTOS software behavior together with hardware activity in the industry-leading trace visualization tool. This leverages Cypress’ innovative hardware profiler unit integrated in the PSoC® 6 MCU, which allows for monitoring [...]
Webinar: Designing and Debugging RTOS based IoT Applications
Embedded evangelist Jacob Beningo will present a free webinar on designing and debugging IoT applications. The webinar features topics like advanced RTOS application design techniques, event chaining and setting up an embedded connection to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Jacob will also use Percepio Tracealyzer to show how to trace an IoT application to not just understand how [...]
NeoMore hosts two free Tracealyzer webinars
Percepio's French distributor NeoMore will host two free webinars in February about RTOS tracing with Percepio Tracealyzer. Tuesday, 6 February 10.00 – Tracealyzer for Keil RTX5 (register) Thursday, 8 February 10.00 – Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS (register) Both webinars will be presented in the French language.
Improved Tracealyzer support for Microchip MPLAB X IDE
We are happy to announce improved Tracealyzer support for Microchip MPLAB X IDE, allowing for tracing of additional RTOSes. The updated MPLAB plugin now supports Micrium µC/OS-III and SafeRTOS, in addition to the previous FreeRTOS support. The plugin has also been updated and verified for the latest version of MPLAB X IDE (v4.0.5). The plugin saves [...]
Analyzing huge traces with Tracealyzer 4
Do you struggle with bugs that are difficult to replicate and isolate? Most embedded software developers encounter such problems now and then. With increasingly complex multi-threaded RTOS-based systems, such issues are likely to become more and more common in the future. They can be very difficult and time consuming to solve, and sometimes developers resort [...]
Happy Winter Holidays from Percepio
It's that time of year again – late December in Sweden means snow (mostly) and darkness (always), but it also means that the Christmas holiday is coming. Most of our staff will go on a well-deserved vacation break next week, so expect that it may take a little longer than usual for us to respond to [...]
Tracealyzer 4: Breaking new ground in RTOS visualization
A completely revamped user interface and a much improved live view are two of the most prominent features of the upcoming Tracealyzer 4, which we showed for the first time at Arm TechCon in October. We put together a series of short introduction videos where Tracealyzer 4 shows off its abilities. First out is the [...]
A Month of Good News
November was a good month for Percepio and Tracealyzer. We saw record sales, a lot of interest in the Tracealyzer 4 preview videos and everything culminated on the 29th with the release of Tracealyzer v3.3 supporting Amazon FreeRTOS, just released by Amazon Web Services along with several new IoT offerings. We believe Amazon Web Services has taken [...]
Tracealyzer v3.3 fully supports Amazon FreeRTOS
Amazon Web Services launched their own RTOS yesterday, as part of a major improvement of its IoT offerings. We're happy to announce that Tracealyzer version 3.3, which we released yesterday, fully supports Amazon FreeRTOS, the new IoT microcontroller operating system from Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS and Percepio have collaborated to provide Tracealyzer support for [...]
Tracealyzer 4: see more with Intervals and State Graphs
This is our third preview video of Tracealyzer 4, due out early next year, and this time we focus on two entirely new features: State Graphs and Intervals. Both features allow you to customize the visualization and analysis for your own system and the issue at hand. State Graphs can be created automatically from your trace, [...]
Tracealyzer 4 lets you see network activity
Welcome to a second glimpse of Tracealyzer 4, showing how network activity can be visualized together with the RTOS events. This way, developers of connected IoT systems can get a wider perspective of their system's real-time behavior. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1O4AE4TEbE In this brief example we display events from a TCP/IP stack, but the same technique can be used [...]
Welcome to a first look at Tracealyzer 4
A completely revamped user interface and a much improved live view are two of the most prominent features of the upcoming Tracealyzer 4, which we showed for the first time at Arm TechCon last week. If you weren't there, you can still get a feel for the new product through a short video we have put together. [...]
Praise for Tracealyzer 4
Percepio's stand at ArmTechCon. ArmTechCon 2017 is over and we have packed up and left. We spent two days talking to users and meeting partners, and we showed the upcoming Tracealyzer version 4 for the first time. We will have more to say about both Tracealyzer 4 and ArmTechCon in the coming weeks, but there's one little [...]
Hands-on with Tracealyzer in Seoul
Our Korean distributor Dioiz is running a hands-on seminar on embedded development with, among other tools, Tracealyzer this week. It is sold out by now, but there will be a second event on November 22 and Dioiz has let us know that applications are welcome. More info here – note though that both the invitation and the [...]
Percepio appoints first regional Sales Manager
Industry veteran Cliff Wood today joins Percepio as Sales Manager for USA and South America. – Cliff has been working with Percepio informally for some time and many of our U.S. customers may have met him, but today we are happy to welcome him as Percepio’s first regional Sales Manager, says Percepio CEO Johan Kraft. Cliff [...]
Meet Percepio at Arm TechCon 2017
The ”theme” of this year’s Arm TechCon conference is of course … Arm. Over 4000 embedded systems specialists are expected to descend upon Santa Clara, California, in two weeks to discuss all things Arm, from silicon design and software development to computer vision and the Internet of Things. Among these enthusiasts is of course a [...]
Percepio announces Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS v3.2
Tracealyzer v3.2 adds powerful filtering functions to reduce the amount of data that must be sent to the monitoring host computer. This makes Tracealyzer applicable to a wider range of development setups. Today we are happy to present version 3.2 of Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS. The new version is available for download from percepio.com/download/ immediately. [...]
Tracealyzer Makers Edition is here
Photo: Sara Arnald, CC-BY Have you ever wanted to debug your hobby MCU project with a tracing tool, but felt that you couldn't afford a pro tool like Percepio Tracealyzer? Well, now you can! From now till the end of this year, you can purchase a non-commercial Tracealyzer Makers Edition license at the heavily discounted price [...]
Submit your trace – get a $25 gift card
A research group at Mälardalen University here in Västerås, Sweden, is investigating how RTOS trace tools like Percepio Tracealyzer can be extended for testing purposes and automatically detect bugs related to concurrency and timing. To validate their research, they need real-world bug examples. We at Percepio want to help them obtain RTOS traces, recorded with Tracealyzer, [...]
Embedded Conference Scandinavia
Embedded Conference Scandinavia 2017 will be in Stockholm, Sweden on 7–8 November. Please see our blog post for further details.
Sensors Midwest: An RTOS workshop with Jacob Beningo
Sensors Midwest takes place in Rosemont outside Chicago on October 3–4. See our blog post for details.
On the Horizon: two embedded conferences
Embedded Conference Scandinavia, ECS, takes place on 7–8 November, 2017 at Kistamässan in Stockholm, Sweden. Last year’s conference attracted just under 2,000 delegates so ECS now claims to be the largest embedded conference in Europe. The conference program is still in flux but the organizers have announced the first keynote speaker: Maarten Struys, Account [...]
ARC Summit: Common RTOS-related bugs – how to avoid and detect
Synopsys ARC Processor Summit is a free one-day event where you can pick from any of 25+ technical seminars on embedded development and electronic design. This year’s Summit takes place on September 26 and Percepio will be there discussing how to catch bugs in RTOS-based programming. Once again we are represented on the stage by [...]
IoT Expert reviews Tracealyzer
Alan Hawse, evangelist and 26-year veteran at Cypress Semiconductor, has published an informative blog post detailing how you can integrate Percepio Tracealyzer into Cypress’ developer toolset PSoC Creator. “As you have probably noticed, I have spent a significant amount of time in the last few months doing FreeRTOS projects,” he writes, and “One thing that [...]
Microchip Masters: Understanding and Meeting real-time constraints in MPLAB Harmony RTOS applications
Percepio’s Field Application Engineer Niclas Lindblom will talk about using Percepio Tracealyzer to debug common timing issues in RTOS applications at the Microchip MASTERs tech conference in the U.S. in August. Niclas shares a four-hour class with Darren Wenn, Global Group Leader for embedded development at Microchip, and they will focus on the combination of [...]
Microchip Masters: Understanding and Meeting real-time constraints in MPLAB Harmony RTOS applications (European edition)
Percepio’s Field Application Engineer Niclas Lindblom will talk about using Percepio Tracealyzer to debug common timing issues in RTOS applications at the Microchip MASTERs tech conference in Berlin in September. Niclas shares a four-hour class with Darren Wenn, Global Group Leader for embedded development at Microchip, and they will focus on the combination of Tracealyzer [...]
A Busy Summer Ahead
Summer is finally approaching here in Sweden. Last Friday we celebrated Midsummer, and the coming weeks will be a bit slower than usual as most Swedes check out from work and enjoy their summer vacation. But only a bit slower, mind you: the lights will stay on at Percepio HQ as we work on new [...]
The Running Snail car team is back for another season
You may have heard about "Running Snail", a team of German university students building an electric race car as a school project – we blogged about them last year. Now they're at it again, they will build a new car for the 2017/18 competitive season, and of course Percepio will continue to sponsor the team with licenses [...]
Webinar: RTOS Fundamentals using FreeRTOS and the STM32 – 21 June 2017
Embedded system complexity has reached the point where many systems require a real-time operating system. In this webinar, attendees will become familiar with the design methodologies necessary to properly schedule tasks in addition to understanding when and where to use mutexes, semaphores and message queues. Important concepts such as preventing priority inversions, deadlock and thread [...]
Trace Debugging for Renesas Synergy and ThreadX
By Niclas Lindblom, Senior FAE at Percepio AB. Percepio has recently introduced Tracealyzer for ThreadX, which is good news for developers using Renesas Synergy. As you might know, the Renesas Synergy Software Package (SSP) includes the ThreadX RTOS and middleware from Express Logic, supporting Synergy S1, S3, S5 and S7 processors. Tracealyzer is a runtime [...]
Success at ZF in adopting automotive software tracing
Learn how ZF was able to improve their embedded software development by adopting Percepio Tracealyzer, the leading solution for RTOS-level trace analysis. ZF is a global leader in automotive driveline and chassis technology, active and passive safety technology, and a long-time customer of IntervalZero – providing technology that turns the Windows operating system into a real-time operating [...]
Tracealyzer for Keil RTX5 now available
After an intense cooperation with ARM/Keil, we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Tracealyzer for ARM® Keil® RTX5, now available for download and evaluation. Click for more information on Tracealyzer for Keil RTX5 PRESS RELEASE Västerås, Sweden, 10 May, 2017 *** Percepio AB, the leading specialist in software tracing tools for real-time operating systems, has [...]
Tracealyzer for ThreadX now available
We are delighted to announce the immediate availability of Tracealyzer for ThreadX, now available for download and evaluation. Tracealyzer for ThreadX supports all ports of ThreadX, with explicit support for Renesas Synergy. PRESS RELEASE Västerås, Sweden, 26th April 2017 - Percepio AB, the leading specialist in software tracing tools for real-time operating systems today announced [...]
Tracealyzer for VxWorks v3.1.2
We are pleased to announce the release of Tracealyzer for VxWorks version 3.1.2, now available for download. Changes include several bug fixes and plenty of useful improvements, such as: User Event Log This view shows a text log of custom "User Events" that have been added in the embedded application code (much like "printf" call). [...]
Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS v3.1.2
We are pleased to announce the availability Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS v3.1.2, now available for download. Users of v3.1.x are recommended to upgrade to this version, especially if using the User Event features. Changes, v3.1.1 -> v3.1.2 - Several improvements of the User Manual, e.g., about snapshot trace via IAR Embedded Workbench. - Fixed a potential [...]
New Webinar: Mastering RTOS Debugging Techniques
In this all new webinar, attendees will become familiar with the latest and greatest techniques and tools necessary to debug their code. Important concepts such as properly sizing thread stacks, using event viewers and discovering issues such as priority inversions, deadlock and thread starvation will be examined. The webinar will provide hands-on demonstrations using the [...]
ARM’s new RTOS gets visualization from Percepio
PRESS RELEASE Västerås, Sweden, 14th March 2017 *** Percepio AB, the leading specialist in software tracing tools for real-time operating systems, has been working closely with ARM to develop Tracealyzer for ARM® Keil® RTX5, the new RTOS in Keil MDK and ARM mbed™ OS. Tracealyzer for RTX5 is based on Percepio’s latest Tracealyzer v3.1 platform [...]
Tracealyzer for ThreadX and Renesas Synergy
Leading software tracing tool soon available for the ThreadX RTOS and Renesas Synergy PRESS RELEASE Västerås, Sweden, 14th March 2017 - Percepio AB, the leading specialist in software tracing tools for real-time operating systems has been working closely with Express Logic to develop Tracealyzer for ThreadX. ThreadX from Express Logic is a leading embedded RTOS [...]
Industry leaders form the Embedded Tools Alliance
PRESS RELEASE London, UK: Wed 8th March 2017 Today a number of industry leading companies in the embedded tools industry announce a new milestone in embedded system development - the Embedded Tools Alliance (ETA). The embedded developers' toolbox is complex and involves many components: IDE (Integrated Development Environment), compilers, debuggers, trace tools, test tools, debug [...]
Tracealyzer v3.1.1 – better Eclipse support!
Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS version 3.1.1 is now available on the download page. This is a maintenance release, following up the big v3.1.0 release in december. The main functional improvement is a new Eclipse plugin, making it more convenient to use Tracealyzer with Eclipse-based IDEs like SOMNIUM DRT, Simplicity Studio, and others. The plugin allows for reading trace snapshots via any debug [...]
Using Tracealyzer on Micrium µC/OS-III and Silicon Labs EFM32 devices
Niclas Lindblom Sr. FAE at Percepio Not that long-ago, developers thought that a high-level language was not really needed when building embedded applications. Writing a good UART driver in assembler was done in only a day or two, so why bother with C? Besides, even if you wrote in C, who could trust that [...]
RTOS Tracing on STM32 over USB CDC
Niclas Lindblom Sr. FAE at Percepio As you might know, our Tracealyzer tools allows you to record and visualize the real-time behavior of your RTOS-based firmware. In previous blogs, I’ve talked about the possibility of streaming the trace data from your board, and today we’ll consider one such specific case - USB CDC. A few months [...]
Common RTOS-related Bugs – How Avoid and Detect
Last month at Embedded Conference Scandinavia, Percepio founder Dr. Johan Kraft made a very well received presentation called "Common RTOS-related bugs – How to Avoid and Detect". The presentation covered RTOS basics, the motivations and challenges of using an RTOS, then dived into specific RTOS-related problems - their symptoms, how to avoid them and means [...]
Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS v3.1
We are really excited to finally release Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS version 3.1, our largest update in over a year! Most of the effort has gone into the new trace recorder library, that now provides both snapshot and streaming trace in a single module with just three .c files. It has an improved common API for both [...]
Upgrading the Trace Recorder to v3.1
The improved trace recorder library is the biggest change in Tracealyzer v3.1, at least for FreeRTOS, Micrium and SafeRTOS. We have merged snapshot and streaming support into a single recorder module that support both modes, and improved the API and documentation to make it easier to use. If you are using an older version of the [...]
ECS 2016: Common RTOS-related Bugs – How Avoid and Detect
Join us as Embedded Conference Scandinavia (ECS), in Kista (Stockholm, Sweden), November 22-23. Percepio founder Dr. Johan Kraft will give a presentation titled "Common RTOS-related Bugs - How Avoid and Detect". The presentation is on the 23rd, at 09:15 - 10:00 (track 1/M1). See you there! Abstract: Real-time [...]
Tracealyzer helps validate ESEO satellite firmware
When Surrey Space Centre was to validate an RTOS-based communications firmware for an ESA satellite, ESEO, they turned to Percepio Tracealyzer. In this video, Dr Chris Bridges and Pete Bartrum explains the satellite design, requirements and why they decided to use Tracealyzer. As you can imagine, firmware that is going into space has strict requirements on dependability [...]
The RTOS trend and the challenges of using an RTOS
Using an RTOS, or perhaps considering an RTOS for your next project? In that case, we recommend reading our article RTOS Trends and Challenges by Percepio founder Dr. Johan Kraft, featured on Embedded.com. The article discusses the strong RTOS trend in the embedded industry, including the motivations and fundamental challenges of using an RTOS, pitfalls that even caused NASA's JPL some serious problems during the [...]
Tracealyzer walkthrough with Infineon XMC4500 Kit
One of our users wrote a step by step walkthrough for using Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS on an Infineon Cortex-M4F XMC4500 Relax Kit. This is a great getting started guide. Download Infineon Walkthrough .PDF Would you like a walkthrough with your Tracealyzer on your hardware, with your tools? Book a free 45 minute consulting [...]
RTOS Tracing, your way
When debugging an RTOS-based system, tracing can often give a better understanding of the real-time behavior of your system. Percepio Tracealyzer supports two main types of RTOS tracing, snapshot and streaming, both offering the same powerful visualization although streaming allows for collecting longer traces. The Percepio trace recorder offers several options to allow developers to adjust the tracing [...]
New to Tracealyzer?
New to Tracealyzer? Get up and running fast! Book a free 45 minute consulting session with Senior FAE Niclas Lindblom This is not a slideshow presentation. Niclas will assist you to get started with Tracealyzer in a live video conference using your own project, tools, and hardware. Each session is unique. Contact support@percepio.com to book [...]
New Tracealyzer video tutorial series
Check out this new series of Tracealyzer tutorial videos that one of our users made last week. They include everything from using STM32 CubeMX to create a project, configuring the trace library, debug probe, and STM32 Nucleo board, all the way using Tracealyzer to view the FreeRTOS trace data. New Tracealyzer video tutorial series: Tutorial [...]
Getting started with Tracealyzer on Xilinx Zynq
Getting started with Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS on Xilinx Zynq This article shows you how to understand what your real-time system is really doing by adding trace capabilities to a Xilinx Zynq-7000 example project. The trace will then be analyzed using Percepio’s Tracealyzer. The starting point is a Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC ZC702 Evaluation Kit, [...]
User Generated Content
Create a piece of content for us - Get a $100 Amazon gift card We’d like to encourage our user community to spread the word about Tracealyzer and help each other with tips and usage ideas, so we have an offer we will keep open until midnight Sunday, 25 September, 2016. We'd like you to host [...]
White Paper: Real time demands on the IoT
Delivering ultra-low power operation in IoT nodes means they will spend most of their time in a dormant mode, waiting to exchange data with a gateway. Could employing an RTOS help deliver a more reliable user experience? Read our latest white paper where Dr. Johan Kraft, Founder and CEO of Percepio, examines some of the [...]
Measuring Time
Microchip just published their latest edition of MicroSolutions including an article about measuring time by Percepio founder Dr. Johan Kraft, in their Design Corner. Download MicroSolutions, check out the article beginning on page 33, and then download a full featured Tracealyzer evaluation! Download MicroSolutions Download Tracealyzer Percepio’s market-leading visualization offers 25+ views, [...]
White Paper: How to visualize response times in FreeRTOS
Being able to measure the timing of RTOS tasks and interrupts is key to understanding the performance of a real-time system. Measuring response time is easy, but then what? Understanding the contributing factors behind performance anomalies requires good visualization that can explain the data. Read our white paper about how Tracealyzer can help you [...]
Day 1 at Microchip Masters!
Day 1 at Microchip Masters Conference. Steve Sanghi, Microchip CEO delivered the keynote, and kicked off 20 years of Microchip Masters Conferences! If you're attending, stop by the Percepio stand, say hello to Niclas and find out about how world leading visualizations can speed your debugging processes. If you're not attending, download Tracealyzer and [...]
New Tracealyzer video explores advanced features
Youtube user "Millsinghion" has made several FreeRTOS video tutorials and recently discovered Tracealyzer for FreeRTOS. Check his new video tutorial, how to get started and how to visualize the real-time behavior of his FreeRTOS system, for instance semaphores, I2C events and ADC readings. Percepio’s market-leading visualization offers 25+ views, which are cleverly interconnected to allow viewing [...]