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Practical Debugging for Embedded ARM Systems

Practical Debugging for Embedded ARM Systems

By : Nino Vidović
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Practical Debugging for Embedded ARM Systems

Practical Debugging for Embedded ARM Systems

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By: Nino Vidović

Overview of this book

Are you truly unlocking the full potential of your embedded debugging tools? This hands-on guide cuts through the confusion of common workflows and shows you how to trace, profile, and debug ARM-based systems like a professional firmware engineer. Written by an industry expert, this book guides you through practical debugging scenarios using real hardware setups. You’ll explore both essential and advanced techniques, from setting breakpoints and analyzing memory to using hardware tracing, power profiling, and RTOS awareness. Through real-world crash analysis, you'll learn how to detect stack overflows, communication errors, memory leaks, and more. You will explore practical examples based on ARM Cortex-M target devices, which help you build structured and efficient debugging workflows. The learned skills can then be easily applied to other chip architectures as well. You’ll walk away with a clear understanding of the tools available, how to apply them in complex firmware projects, and the confidence to tackle even the most elusive bugs in production systems. Whether you’re refining your setup or debugging embedded systems at scale, this book will sharpen your skills and elevate your embedded development workflow. *Email sign-up and proof of purchase required
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How does a debug setup fit in your development workflow?

Let's assume that you already have an automated build system running that produces your output binary file. You maybe even have a way to automatically program the target device and run some unit tests, which can indicate whether they have passed or failed.

How would you analyze a test failure?

One approach would be to simply look at the problematic code part that failed the test and try to do a static analysis. While it is definitely a valid strategy that will yield results in many cases, it is not really very fast or flexible.

Another way would be to analyze the system log and see whether you can spot anomalies, which would bring you back to the approach before, where you do a static analysis on the problematic code around the affected log message.

Again, such setups will already catch and solve many bugs. But what if I told you that you were already debugging all along?

Yes, the approach is not very dynamic or modern, but...

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