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Lauterbach and Evidence Collaborate on OSEK/VDX Tool Chain Hoehenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, June 2014 – Lauterbach, the leading manufacturer of microprocessor development tools, and Evidence, a leader in open source embedded systems, announced a partnership, where Lauterbachs outstanding debugger TRACE32 supports seamlessly Evidence ERIKA Enterprise, the first open source, royalty free, OSEK/VDX certified RTOS. ERIKA Enterprise and its companion RT-Druid is a complete open source, royalty free development environment for OSEK/VDX compliant systems. Based on Eclipse, it works with OSEK-OIL files and several compilers on several architectures, with GCC being “built in”. When building the ECU application, RT-Druid also generates several support files for the debugger, like the OSEK/ORTI file for OS Awareness and ready-to-run startup scripts for TRACE32. With Lauterbachs TRACE32 debugger, the developer then can download, run and test his application on the real hardware. Using the TRACE32 Instruction Set Simulator, one can even test and debug the application before the ECU hardware is available. The close cooperation of Lauterbach and Evidence ensures a smooth collaboration of all tools. By loading the generated OSEK/ORTI files, TRACE32 displays an additional OS awareness menu. All OS objects, like tasks, alarms, resources, can be displayed and inspected. If the CPU in use allows memory access through JTAG while running, all those objects can be viewed in real-time, without affecting the applications run-time at all. When halted, the debugger reads the current state of the target and displays all relevant information, like the current active task. By recurrently reading the PC and current task, the debugger can also create a statistical performance analysis, giving a quick overview of the most time consuming functions and tasks. If you have a real-time trace available, the debugger can collect the CPU activities over time, without affecting the run-time of the applicatio