Introduction to Tracing

Hard­ware trac­ing is a pow­er­ful debug­ging tech­nique that pro­vides deep insights into the run­time behav­ior of an ECU. Prop­er­ly uti­liz­ing the hard­ware trace capa­bil­i­ties of a micro­con­troller makes it eas­i­er to write effi­cient code and to find bugs quick­er.

In this webi­nar we will pro­vide an overview of hard­ware trace tech­niques (such as pro­gram flow, data, and instru­men­ta­tion trace), and dis­cuss dif­fer­ent types of trace record­ing (on-chip trace, par­al­lel, or AURORA trace inter­face). We then demon­strate a typ­i­cal trace work­flow based on two com­mon micro­con­troller archi­tec­tures (Infi­neon AURIX and Pow­er­PC with NEXUS trace) live in winIDEA. 

Who:Felix Mar­tin, Sys­tems Engi­neer, iSYS­TEM USA 

Time­line:

• 5:00 — What is trace?
• 7:42 — Trace with code exam­ple
• 11:52 — Exam­ple Use-Case OS / RTE Pro­fil­ing
• 16:28 — Trace Tech­niques
• 19:24 — Trace Inter­faces
• 26:21 — winIDEA live demo “Hel­lo, world! Run­ning Task/ISR Pro­fil­ing” with micro­con­troller Cho­rus 4M — SPC58EC80, Oper­at­ing sys­tem: ETAS RTA-OS
• 39:34 — winIDEA live demo “Post-mortem debug­ging pro­gram flow trace”, micro­con­troller Infi­neon Tri­Core AURIX 2G — TC399XE
• 53:20 — Ques­tions and answers

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