Mentor Blogs

I recently wrote about the importance of being able to visualize trace data to make sense of all the information that we can now capture with LTTng 2.0 We recently received the results of a customer survey where we got some good feedback on areas you’d like to see us increase our development efforts. Debug tools, multi-core design tools and profiling tools were near the top of the list. This is … Read More

Trace, Multicore

I’m reminded of the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words”. In the case of visualizing trace data we might rephrase it to “A picture is worth a thousand printf’s” I wrote a few weeks ago about LTTng 2.0 and some resources to learn more about what the latest version adds, including kernel+user space tracing. We recently announced an updated version of Sourcery … Read More

Trace

On my quest to continue to learn more about embedded systems development I was able to attend LinuxCon 2012 One of the sessions I attended was an update by Mathieu Desnoyers (author and maintainer) on LTTng 2.0 The Sourcery Analyzer trace and analysis tool from Mentor Embedded makes use of LTTng and I’m in meetings where we discuss the benefits of LTTng 2.0 so I was happy to have gotten an overview … Read More

Multicore, Trace