FreeRTOS Archives

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!”

Percepio Detect 2025.2 Makes Firmware Freezes Visible

Nov 24, 2025

New Percepio Detect 2025.2 release delivers faster debugging, smaller core dumps, expanded IAR Embedded Workbench® and Arm support, and TaskMonitor for automatic anomaly detection. Percepio Detect builds on Percepio’s self-hosted observability platform, offering unlimited on-device monitoring with “security-camera-style” trace capture that records only when unusual events occur.

Major step forward for automated runtime anomaly detection

Oct 27, 2025

Many users have experience with the Tracealyzer tool. The real synergies and unique new capabilities come when using Percepio Detect and Tracealyzer in tandem.

From Code to Competition: Student Racers Use Tracealyzer to Engineer Automotive-Grade Firmware

Oct 27, 2025

At the University of Toronto Formula Racing team, students are applying professional-grade development practices to their electric race car. In the 2024–25 season, the team migrated its control software to FreeRTOS and adopted Percepio Tracealyzer for real-time insight into system behavior

Embedded Multithreading meistern

Sep 23, 2025

How to successfully implement robust, real-time capable firmware for autonomous model vehicles using FreeRTOS, micro-ROS, and Tracealyzer.

A new “free but professional-grade” trace diagnostics tool, aimed at embedded developers working with FreeRTOS and Zephyr RTOS.

Sep 2, 2025

We’re talking real-time task trace visualisation and CPU load monitoring…Features include supporting RTOS-aware task timeline views.

KITcar challenge – Overcoming the Fear of Embedded Multithreading

Aug 26, 2025

We are KITcar, a student team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and for over a decade, we’ve been building autonomous 1:10 scale model cars … With features like real-time task visualization and memory usage statistics, Tracealyzer looked like the exact tool we needed,

Percepio makes trace diagnostics free to use

Jul 8, 2025

Percepio has made Percepio View, a professional-grade trace diagnostics tool, available completely free for developers using FreeRTOS.

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...

Multicore Tracing on FreeRTOS 11 and TI AM62x

Nov 19, 2024

FreeRTOS 11 introduced symmetric multi-processing (SMP) support in the mainline kernel, meaning a single FreeRTOS kernel is managing multiple processor cores. Percepio Tracealyzer has supported FreeRTOS for many years and we have now verified the support FreeRTOS 11, including SMP systems.

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