Tracealyzer Archives

The Growing Importance of Continuous Observability in the Age of Cyber Resilience

Mar 27, 2025

As embedded systems become more connected and complex, ensuring their security and reliability is no longer optional – it’s a regulatory necessity. The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a clear signal that manufacturers must take proactive measures!

A Brief Demo of Percepio Detect

Mar 16, 2025

Resolve firmware issues more effectively with Percepio Detect.

What I learned about Zephyr threads

Mar 10, 2025

To walk through various preemptive scheduling scenarios in Zephyr RTOS, I will use the professional tracing tool Percepio Tracealyzer® with J-Link RTT streaming.

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.

Nohau Solutions and Percepio Announce Partnership

Feb 11, 2025

Nohau Solutions announces a new distribution partnership with Percepio. This collaboration will deliver advanced quality assurance, testing, and observability tools, empowering embedded software developers to enhance product performance and security across the entire development lifecycle.

7 Embedded Software Trends to Watch in 2025

Dec 18, 2024

The focus will shift in 2025 toward observability—giving developers and companies deeper insights into how their systems are performing in real-world environments. Observability tools help teams monitor system behavior, identify bottlenecks, and respond quickly to issues.

The Power of Post-Mortem Debugging for Embedded Systems

Dec 4, 2024

Post-mortem debugging can help you investigate crashes, errors, glitches, and other issues without a live connection to the device.

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.

Introduction to Zephyr OS Tracing and Profiling

Nov 15, 2024

We humans are (mostly) visual by nature, and having the means to visualize what is happening in a given system can really open up possibilities. Without the right tools we are often in the dark, quite literally.

Tracealyzer Tips and Tricks

Oct 31, 2024

There have been significant improvements in Tracealyzer over the last years. If you haven’t tried it in a while—or if you’re just getting started—here are some tips and tricks that can be handy when analyzing your FreeRTOS applications. As you may know, the...