The greatest challenge facing embedded system developers is debugging software. Embedded systems have become highly complex, running real-time operating systems, connectivity stacks, USB, and security ...

Tektronix, Inc., Altera Corporation, and First Silicon Solutions (FS2) announced the FPGAView, a software package from FS2 created for Tektronix TLA logic analyzers to enable real-time debugging of ...

Pavel Kania and Michal Hanak of Motorola's Czech SystemsLaboratories describe a serial communications platform developed forembedded motor control applications using MCUs and DSPs. The Motorola Czech ...

Lightrun, provider of a continuous observability and debugging platform, has announced integrations with six popular tools used by developers—Datadog, IntelliJ IDEA, Logz.io, Prometheus, Slack, and ...

Download the PDF of this article. Trace tools are one way to track the operation of applications in real time, unlike most debuggers that require an application to be stopped to examine its state.