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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.

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Seeing Inside the Scheduler

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