Percepio Tracealyzer vs. TotalView HPC Debugging Software

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Percepio Tracealyzer
Score 7.6 out of 10
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Tracealyzer® lets embedded software developers dive deep into the real-time behavior with the goal of speeding up debugging, optimizing performance and verifying software timing. Requiring no special hardware, Tracealyzer uses software instrumentation to record software event traces. This can be streamed to the host application views or kept in target RAM until requested. This is enabled by its trace recorder library, refined since 2009 and provided as open source. Tracealyzer…N/A
TotalView HPC Debugging Software
Score 8.0 out of 10
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TotalView for HPC, or TotalView Debugger is a debugging tool that was supported by Rogue Wave Software then acquired with Rogue Wave by Perforce in 2019. TotalView debugging software provides specialized tools to debug, analyze, and scale high-performance computing (HPC) applications. This includes highly dynamic, parallel, and multicore applications that run on diverse hardware — from desktops to supercomputers.N/A
Pricing
Percepio TracealyzerTotalView HPC Debugging Software
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Percepio TracealyzerTotalView HPC Debugging Software
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsTracealyzer can be evaluated free of charge for a limited time. Registering for evaluation on the Download page for a time-limited single-user license offers full functionality. This can’t be extended using the automated form. For more evaluation time, support@percepio.com can provide assistance. Note: Evaluation licenses are for EVALUATION only and may not be used for real issues in commercial projects.
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User Ratings
Percepio TracealyzerTotalView HPC Debugging Software
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
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User Testimonials
Percepio TracealyzerTotalView HPC Debugging Software
Likelihood to Recommend
Percepio
This is a perfect tool to debug complex bugs in your system, especially in regards to inter-task communication. It is also a great tool for beginners, as the documentation is accessible and the support given by the company is excellent
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Perforce Software
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Pros
Percepio
  • Great visualization
  • Sometimes awkward views (vertical vs horizontal)
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Perforce Software
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Cons
Percepio
  • It's not always easy to include/integrate Tracealyzer in the OS build. It would be nice to have a simple install/plug n play method for our target.
  • Sometimes, the .bin files from Tracealyzer don't always work and we don't know why
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Perforce Software
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Alternatives Considered
Percepio
While we started using uCOSIII for our simpler microcontroller products, we also use QNX on more complex targets (full microprocessors) and it is a much more complex platform offering event tracing, memory tracing, and performance measures that are extremely good and integrated. More importantly these tools are fully integrated without any code changes. Tracealyzer is not integrated as much into uCOSIII like QNX's tools, debugger, etc. But, going thru the manual work of adding Tracealyzer to the build, it did help us get to a shippable product.
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Perforce Software
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Return on Investment
Percepio
  • Positive: We were able to find some thread priority issues with Tracealyzer.
  • Positive: we were able to see timing of events in the sw/hw that we couldn't otherwise see.
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Perforce Software
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