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News & PressGreen Hills Software’s New TraceEdge Solution Makes TimeMachine Capabilities Widely Available for Real-Time Software Debugging and Optimization Innovation Enables High-Speed Trace Collection from Non-Trace Processors SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Embedded Systems Conference—March 7, 2005—Green Hills Software, Inc., the technology leader in embedded software development tools and real-time operating systems, today unveiled the TraceEdge trace enabler, an innovation that brings the benefits of high-speed trace collection to developers using processors without built-in trace support. With the TraceEdge solution, Green Hills Software’s SuperTrace probe can collect trace data from nearly all 32-bit and 64-bit processors, even those without integrated trace hardware. Developers can use this trace history with Green Hills Software’s MULTI TimeMachine tools to visualize and replay their software’s execution, allowing bugs and inefficiencies to be easily and quickly eliminated. Green Hills Software will be demonstrating the TraceEdge solution in its booth #1513 at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco. "Time-to-market and reliability are essential to the success of electronic products, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, and networking equipment," said Paul Zorfass, senior analyst for FTI. "Traditionally, this has forced OEMs to make difficult tradeoff decisions. However, with Green Hills Software's trace collection and visualization tools, developers have the potential to dramatically improve their products' reliability while also reducing debugging time." Innovative new approach to trace collection TraceEdge instrumentation is done at the object-code level. Logging instructions are inserted at strategic locations throughout the target code. When executed, these instructions write to addresses that are recognized and recorded by the SuperTrace probe. The sequence of recorded addresses provides a complete execution history. Instrumenting at the object-code level provides substantial benefits over the traditional approach of source-level instrumentation:
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“Like
instant replay during a televised sporting event, the SuperTrace
probe and TimeMachine tools let embedded developers capture
and replay the exact sequence of events leading up to the
appearance of a bug or performance bottleneck. This eliminates
the need for trial-and-error debugging, saving minutes to
days of debugging time for each bug,” commented David
Kleidermacher, vice president of engineering at Green Hills
Software. “The SuperTrace probe even captures bugs
that can not be reproduced and would otherwise end up in
a shipped product. With TraceEdge, many more developers can
now take advantage of the SuperTrace and TimeMachine combination
to dramatically improve their products’ reliability
and time-to-market.” 
