impulse EMBEDDED

impulse Workbench Extension
An embedded system is a computer system with a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electrical system, often with real-time computing constraints.

Embedded system complexity is constantly growing and high-level languages like java take more and more space in this area. impulse can help developers to improve the visibility of what is going on inside.

This extension contains a serial line (RS232) adapter, CDT memory adapter, Serial Wire Viewer (SWV) reader and the SystemView reader.

Attach and Read Trace Data from Embedded Target Board

The division into reader and port makes it possible to use any transmission path.

Read, Analyse and Visualize Memory Portions While Debugging

With the help of scripts, information can be extracted from the memory areas and visualized, e.g., with charts.

Analyse Real-Time Behaviour of Your RT-OS

Real-time information from your RT-OS can be displayed and analysed in a variety of ways. Filters and search operations allow the detection of errors.

Serial Line Adapter

The Serial Port Adapter configures and opens a serial port and reads its raw data. The raw data are then processed by a configurable reader.

CDT Memory Adapter

The CDT memory adapter allows data to be read from memory areas. The start address/size can be configured explicitly or in the form of debug expressions (e.g., trace->buffer). The raw data are then processed by a configurable reader.

SWV Reader

The Serial Wire Viewer from ARM (Cortex-M microcontroller) provides non-intrusive real-time tracing (ITM). This mechanism is usually used for printfs only. The impulse SWV reader enhances SWV use cases as it allows users to log and trace different kinds of data (real, integer, strings or logic), which can then be stored, visualized and analysed with impulse.

SystemView Reader

SEGGER's SystemView environment is a real-time recording and visualization tool that visualizes the runtime behaviour of embedded applications. With the SystemView reader, you can use impulse to read and analyse SystemView recording data from files or directly from running targets.
Details
  • Serial Line Adapter

    Read data from a serial line (RS232,..)

    The Serial Line Adapter allows to read streams from serial line. The received data is forwarded to a configurable reader. Scripts are used to send data to the serial line counterpart and activate the streaming environment (stimulation). The adapter can be combined with other adapters using a multi-adapter port.

    Platforms:
    32/64bit 32/64bit 32/64bit
    Requirements:
    • None
    Known limitations:
    • None
    Status:
    • Stable
    Operations:
    • Connect
    • Read
    • Sync
    • Stimulate
    Parameters:
    • Enable: Enables/disables the port adapter.
    • Port: Select the system port as the input.
    • Baud-rate, Data-Bits, Stop-Bits, Parity: Serial line parameters.
    • Reader: Select the reader to parse the raw data stream.
    • Configuration: Optionally, a serialization configuration can be selected (depending on the reader).
    • Insert as root: If the adapter is included in a multi adapter port, the flag will force the adapter to add its signal hierarchy into the root of the combined record.
    • Write input to file: Select a file to log the input stream.
    • Synchronisation: Allows to define a script to do adapter synchronisation.
    • Stimulation: Allows to define a script to stimulate the connected serial port.
  • CDT Memory Adapter

    Read data from memory regions (CDT debugging)

    The CDT Memory Adapter reads memory data blocks from the CDT debugger. The start address/size can be defined explicitly or in form of debug expressions (e.g. trace->buffer). The received data is forwarded to a configurable reader. The adapter can be combined with other adapters using a multi-adapter port.

    Platforms:
    32/64bit 32/64bit 32/64bit
    Requirements:
    • Eclipse CDT tooling (Will be automatically installed).
    Known limitations:
    • None
    Status:
    • Stable
    Operations:
    • Connect
    • Read
    • Sync
    Parameters:
    • Enable: Enables/disables the port adapter.
    • Address: Define the memory address, either as a fixed value or as a debugger expression.
    • Size: Define the memory size, either as a fixed value or as a debugger expression.
    • Reader: Select the reader to parse the raw data stream.
    • Configuration: Optionally, a serialization configuration can be selected (depending on the reader).
    • Suspend: Wait (Wait for debugger to suspend), Force Suspend.
    • Write input to file: Select a file to log the input stream.
    • Insert as root: If the adapter is included in a multi adapter port, the flag will force the adapter to add its signal hierarchy into the root of the combined record.
    • Synchronisation: Allows to define a script to do adapter synchronisation.
  • SWV Reader

    Handle Serial Viewer Viewer data

    The Serial Wire Viewer from ARM (Cortex-M microcontroller) provides non-intrusive real-time tracing (ITM). This mechanism is usually used for printfs only. The impulse SWV reader enhances SWV use cases as it allows users to log and trace different kinds of data (real, integer, strings or logic), which can then be stored, visualized and analysed with impulse.

    Platforms:
    32/64bit 32/64bit 32/64bit
    Requirements:
    • None
    Known limitations:
    • File size limited by virtual memory and temporary storage
    Status:
    • Stable
    Operations:
    • Load
    • Stream
    Parameters:
    • None
    Configuration:
    • A SWV reader configuration is required. The configuration comprise timing settings and the content of the SWV file (the data type for each ITM channel).
  • SystemView Reader

    SEGGER's SystemView environment is a real-time recording and visualization tool that visualizes the runtime behaviour of embedded applications. With the SystemView reader, you can use impulse to read and analyse SystemView recording data from files or directly from running targets.

    Platforms:
    32/64bit 32/64bit 32/64bit
    Requirements:
    • None
    Known limitations:
    • File size limited by virtual memory and temporary storage.
    Status:
    • Stable
    Operations:
    • Load
    • Stream
    Parameters:
    • None
    Configuration:
    • A SystemView reader configuration is required. The configuration defines the domain base and contains the event definition .

License

impulse end-user license
Native extension converter (C/C++) available in the plugin package
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Embedded Systems

The embedded system’s complexity is growing constantly and high-level languages such as Java take up more and more space in this area. impulse can help developers to improve the visibility of what is going on inside.

Logging and Tracing 4 - Getting data into impulse

By default, impulse supports a lot of ports and data formats. Nevertheless you might get into the situation where a given data format or interface are not support or a trace interface is not yet existing on device side. This article handle possibilities to get signal data into impulse.
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