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Percepio Tracealyzer

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What is Percepio Tracealyzer?

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…

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Great tool, even better support!

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 28, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use percepio as our main platform to troubleshoot and diagnose our embedded applications in real time, both as a method to find bugs and to evaluate the performance of our ...
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Marcelo Li Gonzales
Engineer - Engineering
Embedded Lead
University of Calgary Solar Car Team
Percepio Tracealyzer1 year of experience

Tracealyzer definitely helps our customers isolate real-time problems

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 18, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
The Intervalzero’s RTX64 product contains the percepio Tracealyzer tool as part of its SDK. The IntervalZero monitoring session logs can be loaded by Tracealyzer to help our c...
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Vice-President
Percepio Tracealyzer7 years of experience

Great Embedded RTOS Debugging Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 15, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
I have been using Percepio Tracealyzer since I first discovered in on the FreeRTOS site. It has been my go to too for 3 companies, especially with useful for debugging nasty c...
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Verified user
Engineer
Percepio Tracealyzer12 years of experience

It works. Sometimes...

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 14, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use Tracealyzer built within uCOSIII to visualize and debug issues.
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Engineer
Percepio Tracealyzer2 years of experience

Tracealyzer use for an average user

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 10, 2023
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Tracealyzer allowed me to quickly identify embedded OS and code use issues using standard interfaces and hardware tools that far surpass writing custom debug routines, parsers...
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Engineer
Percepio Tracealyzer18 years of experience
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What is Percepio Tracealyzer?

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…

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Product Details

What is Percepio Tracealyzer?

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 supports many processor families, including STM32, NXP i.MX RT, Xilinx Zynq and other Arm devices, ESP32 and others. Supporting new processors is done with a few lines of code. Integrations are provided for leading embedded software platforms and tools, including FreeRTOS, Zephyr, Azure RTOS ThreadX, VxWorks, IAR Embedded Workbench, Keil µVision, Segger J-Link, Lauterbach µTrace, Eclipse/GDB and LTTng for Linux tracing.

Percepio Tracealyzer Features

  • Supported: Detects software anomalies and bugs via live streaming
  • Supported: Analyzes software design with support for any RTOS, Linux and Bare Metal

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Reviews and Ratings

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Great tool, even better support!

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 28, 2023
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Marcelo Li Gonzales
Embedded Lead
University of Calgary Solar Car Team (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percepio Tracealyzer
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use percepio as our main platform to troubleshoot and diagnose our embedded applications in real time, both as a method to find bugs and to evaluate the performance of our code regarding use of resources and timing.
Pros and Cons
  • Allow you to see real-time performance
  • Easily log start-up transients
  • Show RTOS scheduling decisions and resource allocation
Likelihood to Recommend
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
Most Important Features
  • Real-time long term logging
  • CPU timeline
  • User-defined events
Return on Investment
  • Sped up our debugging process by a tangible amount, especially for a couple issues that had our engineers stumped

Tracealyzer definitely helps our customers isolate real-time problems

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 18, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percepio Tracealyzer
7 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The Intervalzero’s RTX64 product contains the percepio Tracealyzer tool as part of its SDK. The IntervalZero monitoring session logs can be loaded by Tracealyzer to help our customers get a detailed graphical view of their real-time application’s behavior. Tracealyzer allows our customers to find memory leaks, deadlocks, and even performance issues. The design of the UI allows for complex applications that run across multiple cores to be easily viewed by our customers to determine what is happening in their applications.
Pros and Cons
  • Graphical view of data
  • filtering out of events
Likelihood to Recommend
Tracealyzer allows our customers to find memory leaks, deadlocks, and even performance issues within applications.
Most Important Features
  • graphical display of data
Return on Investment
  • Allows our customer to get to market faster
  • Allows our customer to better understand what their application is doing

Great Embedded RTOS Debugging Tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 15, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percepio Tracealyzer
12 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I have been using Percepio Tracealyzer since I first discovered in on the FreeRTOS site. It has been my go to too for 3 companies, especially with useful for debugging nasty crashes and performance issues. It is one of the first tools I purchase and have successfully used it both with FreeRTOS and Linux. I greatly appreciate the ability to view the internal workings of complex multithreaded systems with massive debug overhead. As an early adopter I provided initial ports for the microchip DSPIC/24 and Xilinx PPC families and this required very little coding even back in the early days. Since then all the families I’ve used have been supported. Given the viewer itself is written using the .net framework it is a little cleaner directly on Windows but generally runs fine on Linux. Far and away one of my favorite tools for embedded systems.
Pros and Cons
  • Debug system crashes
  • Performance Analysis
Likelihood to Recommend
It’s been useful to the organizations I’ve worked at for all manner of embedded systems debug.
Most Important Features
  • Debug
Return on Investment
  • Small company now, a bit pricy now

It works. Sometimes...

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 14, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percepio Tracealyzer
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Tracealyzer built within uCOSIII to visualize and debug issues.
Pros and Cons
  • Great visualization
  • Sometimes awkward views (vertical vs horizontal)
Likelihood to Recommend
It's very helpful when it works, but may take some tweaking to get it to that point.
Most Important Features
  • Visualizing the timing of the code/OS/everything else.
  • being able to add custom events
Return on Investment
  • 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.
Alternatives Considered
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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Tracealyzer use for an average user

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 10, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percepio Tracealyzer
18 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Tracealyzer allowed me to quickly identify embedded OS and code use issues using standard interfaces and hardware tools that far surpass writing custom debug routines, parsers, corresponding software tools in a fraction of the time. I can't really imagine writing code for an embedded OS target without having visualization tools like Tracealyzer at the ready.
Pros and Cons
  • Visualization of complex process interactions, times, dependencies
  • Organization of data streamed from the OS target in a meaningful way
Likelihood to Recommend
Tracealyzer is great for a embedded target with enough memory that uses an OS. If you're trying to run a OS on a very limited resource constrained system, use can be a bit difficult.
Most Important Features
  • Out of the box use without too much integration or trouble to get running
Return on Investment
  • The initial licensing costs and maintenance costs are negligible compared to the time a developer can spend trying to troubleshoot some deep OS intrinsic without the proper insight tools.
  • Tracealyzer costs are negligible compared to the time to develop, test, and maintain custom debug tools and corresponding desktop software.
Alternatives Considered
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