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News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: RapiTime toolset
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 August 2007
Software tools analyse execution time
Engineers can now use the RapiTime toolset to provide detailed information about the timing performance of their application code.
Tektronix has formed a partnership with embedded software tools vendor Rapita Systems Rapita's RapiTime worst-case execution time analysis software, when integrated with the Tektronix TLA5000 and TLA7000 series of logic analysers, provides state of the art software performance analysis solutions for software designers tasked with developing and debugging application software for embedded real-time systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Oct 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"This partnership is very important for Rapita as Tektronix is the leader in instrumentation, real-time tracing and measurement", said Dr Guillem Bernat, CEO of Rapita Systems.
"Linking our software with a Tektronix logic analyser enables us to provide a fully integrated, off the shelf hardware and software solution to our customers".
Previously, embedded systems designers needed to develop custom solutions to address the problem of capturing the timing trace information required for detailed performance analysis.
The integration of the TLA5000 and TLA7000 logic analysers with RapiTime software automates this process and provides a complete, efficient and effective off the shelf solution.
Enhanced by the real-time acquisition capabilities of the Tektronix logic analyser, engineers can now use the RapiTime toolset to provide detailed information about the timing performance of their application code on virtually any embedded microprocessor- or microcontroller-based target available on the market.
"RapiTime brings a new market segment opportunity to our TLA logic analyser business, allowing software engineers to find the elusive 'needles in the haystack' of embedded applications", said Ross Nelson, Logic Analyser Marketing and Strategy Director, Logic Analyser Product Line, Tektronix.
"In particular, the RapiTime tool can process vast amounts of timing trace data collected over long execution periods, and pinpoint worst-case execution time hotspots".
Tektronix TLA logic analysers provide the industry's best real-time hardware analysis capabilities.
Using Windows XP, the instruments ensure ease of integration with third-party software packages such as RapiTime.
The combined Tektronix TLA logic analyser and RapiTime software toolset are marketed globally by Rapita Systems. Request a free brochure from Tektronix ...
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