SWAT expands TASKING’s timing analysis portfolio with the addition of software tracing

Munich, Ger­many, 8 July 2025 – TASKING intro­duces its soft­ware trace tool SWAT, a new soft­ware trac­ing solu­tion designed for embed­ded sys­tems. This expands TASK­ING’s Tim­ing Analy­sis port­fo­lio by enabling real-time pro­fil­ing even on micro­con­trollers with­out hard­ware trace capa­bil­i­ties. This brings the com­pa­ny one step clos­er to its vision of cov­er­ing all nec­es­sary debug fea­tures in the embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment work­flow.

Tim­ing analy­sis plays a key role when devel­op­ing real-time safe­ty sys­tems. TASKING has been a proven sup­pli­er of hard­ware trace solu­tions for many years. How­ev­er, not all micro­con­trollers come equipped with hard­ware trace capa­bil­i­ties. Addi­tion­al­ly, design con­straints some­times pre­vent using trace pins or ded­i­cat­ed hard­ware.

For cases where ven­dors offer emu­la­tion devices, TASKING offers emu­la­tion adapters which can assist in early develop­ment. But due to size lim­i­ta­tions, board space, and addi­tion­al com­plex­i­ty of the setup, these adapters are not a viable solu­tion in all sit­u­a­tions.

Soft­ware trac­ing offers an effi­cient method of record­ing run­time behav­ior with min­i­mal over­head: The new SWAT does not require any addi­tion­al hard­ware but uses the exist­ing debug inter­faces of the iC7pro or iC7max. It is easy to set up and use, which makes inte­gra­tion straight­for­ward.

Avail­abil­i­ty

TASKING’s SWAT is avail­able now. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion can be found online.

Webi­nar

For those inter­est­ed, TASKING will host prod­uct release webi­na­rs on 17 July 2025. Roger Smith, Senior Tech­ni­cal Mar­ket­ing Man­ag­er, will present the capa­bil­i­ties of the new SWAT tool for dif­fer­ent regions: For the EMEA region the webi­nar will take place at 1pm CEST, for the US at 1pm EST. For detailed reg­is­tra­tion info, visit here.

About TASKING

TASKING is a lead­ing provider of embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools, pri­mar­i­ly serv­ing safe­ty-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions. Found­ed in 1977, the Com­pa­ny has a rich his­to­ry of devel­op­ing per­for­mance-dri­ven com­pil­ers and inte­grat­ed develop­ment envi­ron­ments (IDEs) that enable man­u­fac­tur­ers and Tier‑1 sup­pli­ers to cre­ate safe­ty-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions that are inno­v­a­tive, reli­able, and high per­for­mance. Today, TASKING con­tin­ues to expand its port­fo­lio and capa­bil­i­ties through acqui­si­tions that broad­en its offer­ings to include advanced debug­ger, soft­ware trace, and analy­sis tools. This con­stant strate­gic growth makes TASKING a trust­ed part­ner for embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools and ser­vices. TASKING has a strong posi­tion in safe­ty-crit­i­cal mar­kets with appli­ca­tions, such as auto­mo­tive, indus­tri­al and aero­space among oth­ers. Focus­ing on trust, cus­tomer ori­en­ta­tion, exper­tise and a strong com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty, TASKING empow­ers embed­ded soft­ware engi­neers to devel­op reli­able, high-per­for­mance appli­ca­tions for a safer future.

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