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Beyond Hardware-based Trace: Useful Alternatives for Run-Time Analysis

Trace is often required for use cases such as function and task run-time analysis. Off-chip trace is generally the preferred approach for such use cases, as it provides detailed and reliable results without requiring any modification to the target application....

15 Oct 2025

Trace

SMP Trace Display Options

TRACE32 PowerView provides different display options for analyzing trace results on Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) systems. The most suitable option depends on the target software and the user’s analysis goals. The default display option is MergeCORE, where timing is calculated se...

15 Sep 2025

Debug

Case Study: Debugging Traps on TriCore™ AURIX™

Background Information: Traps in TriCore™ AURIX™ Traps in the TriCore™ AURIX™ architecture are exceptional events that can be caused by conditions such as: Instruction Exception Illegal Memory accesses, e.g.: Result from attempts to access non mapped memory regions or peripher...

13 Dec 2024

Trace

Utilizing TRACE32 Mixed-Signal Probe to Trace Task Switches in Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)

Today, nearly every application runs on an operating system. To effectively analyze the timing behavior of the OS, it is crucial to trace the currently running task. Unfortunately, the tracing infrastructure of the core architecture sometimes lacks both data tracing...

13 Dec 2024

Trace

New Documentation: Lauterbach Details RISC-V Trace Infrastructure Setup

With the RISC-V standards now finalized, many semiconductor manufacturers are working diligently to implement RISC-V trace IP in their chips. TRACE32 debug and trace tools are widely used to configure and validate the functionality of the trace infrastructure. To ensure...

19 Aug 2024

Debug

Visual Studio Code Integration with TRACE32

You can now debug your target in Visual Studio Code using TRACE32 as the debugging backend. Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is a popular, free, open-source code editor developed by Microsoft, widely embraced in the embedded systems community. It includes...

13 May 2024

Debug

Lauterbach Tools Seamlessly Connect with Arm® SoCs

When connecting a Lauterbach debug and trace tool with your development kit or custom target hardware, your aim is a smooth setup process. Prior familiarity, even during the hardware design phase, greatly enhances the likelihood of swiftly achieving this objective....

4 Mar 2024

Functional Safety

Introducing t32covtool - The Code Coverage Merging and Reporting Tool

Lauterbach now offers a command-line tool for consolidating the results of multiple code coverage test runs performed at different times, with different builds, or using different target configurations. An HTML file can be generated for analysis and documentation purposes. t32...

21 Nov 2023

Trace

DAP Streaming with Debug Cable for TriCore AURIX

In addition to debugging, the DAP interface of the AURIX™ TriCore™ microcontrollers can also stream trace data off chip. This utilizes the onchip trace infrastructure and therefore requires a MCDS, MCDSlight or miniMCDS. This feature is referred to as DAP stre...

6 Nov 2023

Debug

Precise Runtime Measurement with Debugger

What is the runtime of my function? What effect did my last code change have on the runtime behavior? Many developers ask themselves similar questions while debugging. To provide a quick and precise answer, Lauterbach has redesigned its RunTime Window....

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