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Lauterbach kündigt Debug- und Trace-Unterstützung für Arm®-Prozessoren der nächsten Generation an
Die TRACE32®-Entwicklungswerkzeuge von Lauterbach unterstützen jetzt auch die neuesten Arm®v9.2-Prozessoren, die kürzlich angekündigten Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720 und Cortex-A520 der nächsten Generation. Die TRACE32-Unterstützung umfasst das gleichzeitige Debugging der heterogenen CPU-Kerne sowie die nicht-intrusive CPU-Trace-Erfassung. Der Cortex-X4 wurde von Arm® entwickelt, um höchste Rechenleistung in System-on-Chips (SoCs) zu liefern, und erreicht eine Taktfrequenz von bis zu 3,4 GHz. Das Design des Cortex-A720 wurde optimiert, um im Vergleich zum Cortex-A715 mehr Rechenleistung bei gleichem Energiebudget zu liefern. Der kleinste Core von Arm® für diese Generation, der Cortex-A520, hat das niedrigste Verhältnis von Leistungsaufnahme zu Chipfläche aller drei angekündigten Arm®v9.2. Cortex-Cores und ist in erster Linie für die Ausführung von Aufgaben mit geringer Intensität…
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Lauterbach Announces Support for Next-Generation Arm Processors
Lauterbach’s TRACE32® development tools now also support Arm’s newest leading-edge Armv9.2 processors: the recently announced next-generation Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-A520. TRACE32 support includes simultaneous debugging of the heterogeneous CPU cores as well as non-intrusive CPU trace capture. Arm’s Cortex-X4 is designed to deliver top-tier compute performance in System-on-Chips (SoCs), featuring an anticipated core clock speed of 3.4 GHz. The Cortex-A720 design was optimized to deliver more performance within the same power budget compared to the Cortex-A715. Arm’s smallest core for this generation, the Cortex-A520, has the lowest power-to-area ratio of all three announced Armv9.2. Cortex cores and is primarily designed for performing low-intensity and background operational tasks to allow better…
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Rocket Fast Tracing to Launch Projects Faster
With PowerTrace Serial 2, Lauterbach introduces the successor to its market-leading trace tool PowerTrace Serial. Thanks to 8 GB of trace memory, up to 80 Gbit/s bandwidth, and the ability to correlate external signals with the program flow, embedded developers now have unprecedented insights into embedded systems. Real-time tracing dramatically widens the possibilities to debug and analyze embedded systems: Developers benefit from measuring the executing performance, analyzing race conditions, or proving code coverage. Lauterbach’s new PowerTrace Serial 2 fits perfectly to all high-speed serial trace ports from low lane count and low bit rate up to the highest lane count and fastest bit rate available in the embedded industry. It…
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Lauterbach Announces Debug and Trace Support for Texas Instruments intelligent AM6xAx™ Vision Processors
Lauterbach TRACE32® development tools now also support the Texas Instruments AM62Ax, AM68A and AM69A SoC series. This includes simultaneous debugging of the heterogeneous CPU cores as well as non-intrusive CPU trace capture for functional safety certification. The TI AM6xAx series are built for a set of cost-sensitive automotive applications including driver and in-cabin monitoring systems, next-generation of eMirror systems, as well as a broad set of industrial applications in Factory Automation, Building Automation, and other markets. The SoCs contain up to eight Arm® Cortex-A72 respective four Arm® Cortex®-A53 cores , up to two Vision Processing Accelerators (VPAC) with Image Signal Processor (ISP) and multiple vision assist accelerators, video accelerators, Cortex®-R5F…
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Lauterbach Announces Debug and Trace Support of NXP S32G3x Vehicle Network Processors
Lauterbach, a leading manufacturer of cutting-edge development tools for embedded systems, today announced that its TRACE32® development tools now support the NXP® Semiconductors S32G3 series of vehicle network processors. This includes simultaneous JTAG debugging of all CPU cores, non-intrusive CPU-trace capture for functional safety certification, as well as AUTOSAR and hypervisor support. NXP’s S32G3 series combines hardware security, ASIL D safety, high-performance real-time and application processing, and network acceleration for vehicle computers, service-oriented gateways, domain controllers and safety-coprocessors. It implements up to 4 Arm® Cortex®-M7 real-time cores in lockstep-configuration and up to 8 Arm Cortex-A53 application processors with cluster lockstep option. To enable the customer developing both application and real-time…
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Lauterbach Announces Debug and Trace Support of NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ for Safety-Critical Applications
Lauterbach, a leading manufacturer of cutting-edge development tools for embedded systems, today announced that its TRACE32® development tools now support the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ system-on-a-chip (SoC). This includes simultaneous JTAG debugging of the CPU cores as well as non-intrusive CPU-trace capture for functional safety certification. NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ is a central computer for intelligent vehicles, delivering a massive amount of computing performance (254 trillion operations per second) for highly automated and autonomous-driving applications. Lauterbach’s TRACE32® tools supplement the NVIDIA Nsight developer tools suite. While NVIDIA Nsight focuses on application-level development for multi-core CPU and GPU-accelerated applications, Lauterbach’s TRACE32 enables hardware-accelerated debugging and real-time tracing, which is essential for safety-critical applications.…
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Lauterbach Launches New Help Desk
Knowledge Base, Technical News and Sophisticated Support Request Handling Improve Everyday Work of Embedded Developers Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, has launched a new web-based technical help desk specifically designed to improve the daily work of embedded developers. A new advanced ticket system serving customer support requests enables developers to view the current status of the ticket processing including full history at any time. Engineers can be automatically notified by e-mail that their requests have been answered. In a further improved knowledge base providing a comprehensive FAQ area as well as video tutorials, solutions to the most common development questions for all microarchitectures supported by Lauterbach products…
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Lauterbach Supports NXP’s New S32Z and S32E Real-Time Processor Families with TRACE32® Development Tools
Lauterbach, the world’s leading supplier of debug and trace tools, is pleased to announce the addition of NXP® Semiconductors’ new S32Z and S32E real-time processor families to the growing list of processors supported by TRACE32®. It provides an out-of-the-box debug and trace solution for the whole processor, supporting for all cores. "NXP has extended the S32 Automotive Platform by adding a new class of safe, real-time processors that offer the critical deterministic behavior of safe microcontrollers (MCUs), but with an unparalleled combination of gigahertz speed, multi-application isolation and memory expansion capabilities," said Brian Carlson, Global Marketing Director for Vehicle Control and Networking Solutions at NXP. "The new 16nm S32Z and S32E real-time processor families are ideal for…
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Lauterbach kündigt volle Debug Unterstützung für die neue Armv9 Architektur an
Die Armv9 Architektur ist der Nachfolger von Armv8, der als erste 64-bit Architektur von Arm veröffentlicht wurde. Armv9 bietet für die nächste Generation von Arm-basierten Chips mehr Leistung, verbesserte Sicherheit und digitale Signalverarbeitung (DSP) sowie wie Möglichkeit für maschinelles Lernen (ML). Norbert Weiß, Geschäftsführer der Lauterbach GmbH, sagt: "Lauterbach hat schon immer sehr eng mit Arm zusammengearbeitet. Diese Beziehung ermöglicht es uns, durchgängig qualitativ hochwertige Werkzeuge bereitzustellen, oft bevor der erste Silizium-Prozessor verfügbar ist. Durch den Support der kommenden Armv9 Architektur führt Lauterbach die kontinuierliche Unterstützung aller Arm Cortex®-Cores fort." Die Unterstützung der Armv9 Architektur wird ab sofort angeboten und steht über ein Software-Update auch bestehenden Armv8 Kunden zur Verfügung.…
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Lauterbach and Percepio® Announce their Collaboration
. • Live streaming into Tracealyzer available for Arm® Cortex-M® devices • Aims for full integration of hardware trace data by end of year Lauterbach and Percepio® announce their cooperation to achieve closer integration between Percepio Tracealyzer® and Lauterbach’s series of TRACE32® high-end tracing tools. The first result of this cooperation is an integration that allows Lauterbach users on Arm Cortex-M microprocessors to live stream software trace data into Percepio Tracealyzer, providing visual trace diagnostics for accelerated debugging and verification. The solution is described in a recent application note from Percepio and leverages the Percepio trace recorder library, supporting e.g. FreeRTOS and SafeRTOS. “Lauterbach is pleased to have started a…
