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Continued Operational Assurance in Software-Defined Medical Devices

Jul 29, 2026

In his latest video interview EPDT’s Editor-in-Chief Mike Green talks with Andreas Lifvendahl, CEO of Percepio about the emerging era of software-defined medical devices and how consistent behaviour can be maintained on an ongoing basis.

Clinical trials are an ideal opportunity not only to validate clinical outcomes but also to understand software behaviour under real operating conditions.

“Today it’s a lot of ad hoc debugging… then you remove the printf’s and alike completely, and then you’re basically flying blind from that point on. … But development never stops. We are only a small piece of a much larger puzzle—but it’s a puzzle that is rapidly growing and evolving” says Lifvendahl, CEO at Percepio.

The hidden flaw in real-time systems teaching

May 18, 2026

Florent Goutailler, Associate Professor at Télécom Saint-Etienne, describes how adding a runtime visualisation tool to his FreeRTOS course closed that gap – and transformed the way his students approach engineering problems.

“For many years, I observed the same pattern: students could write code that compiled and ran, but when something didn’t behave as expected, they struggled to understand why.”

SOFTWARE ASSURANCE, OSSERVABILITÀ RUNTIME

May 5, 2026

Oltre la verifica statica: l’importanza del monitoraggio runtime nei sistemi edge critici per garantire sicurezza, resilienza informatica e successo operativo attraverso l’osservabilità continua. Read (In Italian) the Elettronica Oggi article on Percepio’s Continuous Observability.

Detecting silent failures and improving runtime security

May 5, 2026

Why are non-crashing failures becoming more common in modern embedded designs?
Embedded systems have become far more complex over the last decade. We now see multicore processors, RTOS-based concurrency, third-party middleware, connectivity stacks, and increasingly AI or data-driven workloads running alongside traditional control software. Read the Component in Electronics interview with Percepio CEO Andreas Lifvendahl, March 2026 issue

Percepio Tracealyzer provided the scalability and modularity as key enablers for BMW engineers

May 5, 2026

“We do embedded software traces for automotive and other industrial software applications,” said Andreas Lifvendahl, CEO of Percepio. “We make sure the software behaves.” Tracealyzer provided insight into software runtime performance, helping engineers monitor execution behaviour during development and testing in BMW’s work on software-defined vehicles (SDVs). Read Vehicle Electronic’s Embedded Worlds 2026 show floor interview with Percepio CEO Andreas Lifvendahl (issue 148, April 2026)

Verifying multi-threaded embedded systems with software tracing

Apr 3, 2026

Embedded software often also needs to meet real-time requirements. For example, a control system might have a requirement to output control signals to a motor controller every 5 milliseconds, where any additional delay is considered a failure. Such requirements are not only affected by the execution time of the specific thread, but also by dependencies on other threads. Thus, verifying real-time requirements is about more than measuring timing metrics. It is also about identifying potential risks from thread interactions that may affect the timing requirements.

So, how do you verify that a design is good from a multi-threading perspective?

Elektor TV – Percepio’s founder Johan Kraft on edge observability, RTOSes, Percepio Detect and more

Apr 2, 2026

Stuart Cording at Elektor Magazine interviews Percepio’s Johan Kraft at Embedded World in Nuremberg 2026. Covring topics like Tracealyzer, Percepio Detect, and RTOS runtime debugging and wider edge observability challenges. The discussion reinforces a familiar challenge in embedded development: many of the hardest bugs are not easy to reproduce in a halted debugger. Better runtime observability helps teams see what the system was actually doing, when it mattered most.

Seeing Inside the Scheduler

Mar 6, 2026

RTOS applications rarely fail because a single task is misbehaving. Instead, problems emerge from interactions that are often invisible at the code level.

SDV: Was BMWs jüngste Software-Investition verrät

Mar 4, 2026

Premium car manufacturers like BMW – companies with strong internal development expertise and decades of software experience – are investing in modern development tools to manage the growing complexity of today’s vehicle architectures.

Max Maxfield – “Well, Fork Me with a Dining Philosophers Problem”

Mar 1, 2026

One question I’m often asked—and one I often ask myself—is, “How many people are currently involved in developing embedded systems?” Counting engineers is a slippery problem (especially mechanical engineers, because they are often dripping in oil). I’d hazard a guess that there are probably between 2 and 4 million embedded professionals globally (depending on how we define ‘embedded’ and ‘professionals’), including both hardware designers and software/firmware developers.

Now I have another question for you. How many embedded system development teams around the world are using the tools from Percepio? The answer to this one is easy: “Not as many as there should be!”

What BMW’s latest software investment reveals about the future of automotive development

Mar 1, 2026

The automotive industry is quietly undergoing a structural transformation that is every bit as significant as the move from carburetors to electronic fuel injection or from mechanical steering to drive-by-wire. The rise of the software-defined vehicle (SDV) is reshaping OEM business models, engineering practices, and supply chains at a speed that only a few years ago would have seemed improbable.

In this new reality, even premium manufacturers such as BMW – companies with deep in-house engineering capability and long-established software competencies – are making strategic investments in modern development tools to support increasingly complex vehicle architectures. Their recent decision to adopt Percepio’s runtime observability technology is more than a single OEM upgrading a single capability; it’s part of a broader shift that is becoming visible across the industry.

“Keeping a close watch” – Percepio founder Johan Kraft interviewed on edge observability

Feb 24, 2026

In a case highlighted by debug specialist Percepio, a company building HVAC systems found, once again, a low-importance task failing to compete as expected. Once again, a watchdog timer reset the device. Without logs of what happened, they just looked like random reboots. With data captured by the targets themselves, developers obtained the clues they needed to create a fix.

…This kind of in-field observability is clearly not new. But it is taking on greater importance thanks to the proliferation of networked devices.

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