Best Embedded Software Development Tools for Cloud - Page 2

When it comes to ensuring software quality, reliability, and security in today's sophisticated code bases, traditional debugging and testing methods simply fall short. Automated tools such as static source code analyzers are more effective in finding defects that could result in buffer overflows, resource leaks, and other security and reliability issues. This class of defects are often not detected by compilers during standard builds, run-time testing, or typical field operation. While other source code analyzers run as separate tools, DoubleCheck is an integrated static analyzer, built into the Green Hills C/C++ compiler. DoubleCheck leverages accurate and efficient analysis algorithms that have been tuned and field-proven in 30+ years of producing embedded development tools. DoubleCheck can be used as a single integrated tool to perform compilation and defect analysis in the same pass.

As the pace of microprocessor innovation continues to accelerate, application developers know they can rely on Green Hills Compilers to unlock the hardware's full potential and realize maximum performance and functional safety in their next-generation applications. Green Hills Compilers use the most advanced optimizations to maximize your program's performance even within strict size constraints. For example, our CodeFactor™ optimization speeds your program's execution and reduces its size by removing redundant segments of code via subroutine calls and tail merges. Static basing provides the same benefits (faster speed, smaller size) by grouping data items to significantly reduce the number of load address operations. Every one of our optimizations, whether it's our own innovation or an industry standard, is meticulously implemented. Continuing three decades of engineering excellence, we painstakingly research and then test each one against hundreds of benchmarks.

The TimeMachine debugging suite extends the range of Green Hills Software’s popular MULTI integrated development environment (IDE) by providing a window into the complex interactions in software that can result in bugs, performance problems, and testing nightmares. By presenting this information in easy-to-understand displays, TimeMachine enables developers to quickly navigate through trace data and produce better code in less time. With TimeMachine you can debug both forward and backward in time, making it easier to find even the hardest time. Make your software run faster than you thought possible by examining program execution history to find previously unknown bottlenecks. Accelerate debugging by stepping backward a single step at a time into functions you've already stepped over. Leverage gigabytes of execution history to verify that your program has been fully tested.

Cybersecurity of connected embedded system devices has always been important, especially for systems supporting high availability, mission-critical applications. In today’s heightened cyber threat environment, connected embedded systems for industrial controls, transportation, navigation, communications, aerospace, military applications, healthcare devices, logistics systems and many others require uncompromising security at deployment and throughout their product life cycles. To compensate for go-to-market pressures, many connected embedded system product developers rely on third-party software components, including open source or proprietary licensed components to address foundational product functions. Traditional security audits take place at the end of development and testing, right before products are released.

Automating the creation and deployment of component test harnesses, test stubs and test drivers is a cinch thanks to OneTest Embedded. With a single click from any development environment, one can profile memory and performance, analyze code coverage and visualize program execution behavior. Additionally, OneTest Embedded helps be more proactive in debugging, while identifying and assisting in fixing code before it breaks. Allows for a virtual cycle of test generation, while executing, reviewing and testing improvement to rapidly achieve full test coverage. One click is all it takes to build, execute on the target, and generate reports. Helps preempt performance issues and program crashes. Additionally, can be adapted to work with custom memory management methods used in embedded software. Provides visibility on thread execution and switching to develop a deep understanding of the behavior of the system under test.

It offers thousands of pre-built models that cover a wide range of engineering disciplines, with search to identify a model that matches your design requirements, and broad target support. The Embed library of motor models and motor control algorithms, for both sensored and sensorless applications, provides the starting point to accelerate embedded motor control projects for any type of electric motor, including AC induction, BLDC, PMSM, brushed DC, or stepper motors. With Embed, users can easily model and simulate end-to-end, physical layer data communication systems providing determination of energy and bit required for a given bit error rate for a comprehensive set of modulation, encoding, and channel configuration.

Sourcery CodeBench delivers a powerful toolset that helps embedded software engineers to efficiently develop and optimize software for a variety of targets and various domains including Automotive, Connectivity, Graphics, and Video applications. Sourcery CodeBench goes beyond just the compiler to provide developers with powerful open source, embedded C/C++ development tools to build, debug, analyze and optimize embedded software in complex heterogeneous architectures including Arm, IA32, MIPS and Power Architectures. Eclipse based IDE enabling workspace customization and project management. Enhanced source code editor with syntax highlighting. Custom board support through Board Builder, a tool for automatically generating linker scripts, debug configuration files, and start-up code based on a board’s memory map.