Lauterbach Accelerates Development of NXP S32K5 Automotive Applications

The S32K5 MCU family expands the S32 automotive processing platform to deliver performance compute and memory, along with advanced vehicle network communication features at low power consumption. The S32K5 series is ideal for automotive applications such as zone controller in Software Defined Vehicles (SDV), domain controller, body central module or chassis and safety controller. The SoC features a heterogenous compute architecture, including multiple Arm® Cortex® cores as well as RISC-V based accelerator cores.

Lauterbach’s TRACE32® development tools enable hardware-accelerated debugging of all the Arm processors and other cores that are implemented on the chip. TRACE32® tools consist of the universal PowerView debugging and tracing software as well as debug and trace accelerator modules. While Lauterbach’s intelligent PowerDebug modules provide the highest available download speeds and smallest response times for efficient debugging and test automation, PowerTrace real-time trace modules provide full insights of what the processors and other cores of the system are doing without impacting its real-time performance in any way. Trace analysis including code coverage measurements can support bringing embedded designs to market faster, safer, and more reliably than ever.

TRACE32® enables simultaneous debugging and tracing of the Arm processors and other cores in a SoC; a unique capability to cover the whole system, regardless of whether the system is SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing), AMP (Asymmetric Multiprocessing), or iAMP (Integrated Asymmetrical Multiprocessing). Lauterbach’s innovative iAMP debug and trace technology enables to debug multicore systems with identical CPU instruction sets in just one TRACE32® PowerView GUI.

“NXP’s new S32K5 product family combines excellent computing performance with low power consumption, which makes it highly attractive for modern cars”, comments Norbert Weiss, Managing Director at Lauterbach GmbH. “With the latest support of TRACE32®, we enable S32K5 customers to develop their applications with our market leading debug and trace tools right from the start."

“Software performance is an increasingly important focus for SDVs,” adds David Vieira, Sr. Director Zonal Solutions at NXP. “We are pleased to have TRACE32 tools support for the heterogeneous core types in S32K5, enabling developers to optimize code for a variety of use cases.”

Lauterbach’s TRACE32® development tools enable developers of automotive domain based as well as SDV architectures to evolve their applications based on S32K5 SoCs even faster and easier.

Learn more about debugging and profiling Software Defined Vehicles (SDV): www.lauterbach.com/sdv