How to tackle low-reproducibility bugs in embedded development.

Visualize complex systems with tracing! Debugging and tracing all in one device!

As embedded software becomes increasingly large-scale and complex year by year, when low-reproducibility bugs occur, it inevitably requires a tremendous amount of time and personnel to investigate their causes, which can easily lead to delays in development plans. Particularly with the rise of multi-core processing and asynchronous operations, tracking bugs with limited occurrence conditions becomes difficult with conventional methods, further increasing investigation costs. How to tackle these "elusive bugs" has become an important theme in modern embedded development. Tracing is an essential technology for analyzing difficult-to-reproduce issues and performance challenges, as it can visualize execution history and timing without stopping the system and in a non-intrusive manner. If debugging is a snapshot of a moment, tracing can be likened to a movie. To achieve both shorter development periods and improved quality, the use of tracing has now become one of the important foundations of development. μTrace (Micro Trace) allows for the use of both debugging and tracing in a single device, providing functionality equivalent to our high-end products. The supported cores are Arm Cortex-M and RISC-V RV32 cores, which are low-power, highly real-time, and have become the standard for microcontrollers worldwide.

Development support tools (ICE, emulators, debuggers, etc.)