The official Arduino development team has this week announced a new partnership with Lauterbach to provide all Portenta H7 customers with the TRACE32 debugger for free. The Lauterbach TRACE32 debugger has been at the forefront of debug technology for more than four decades, and it is this wealth of experience and expertise that Lauterbach will draw on for the Arduino Portenta, says Arduino.
The debugger communicates with the Portenta via GDB on a serial interface which means that all you need to start debugging is a USB cable to connect Portenta to TRACE32. To enable the GDB interface on Portenta, simply include and compile Arduino’s ThreadDebug library as part of your sketch. Debugging Arduino code isn't quite the same as debugging code for a PC because the Arduino code is usually controlling physical outputs or receiving physical inputs to/from the real world and the debugging process has to take those into account. As others have said, using Serial.println is the usual tool to monitor what's happening. The Arduino program code does not need to be edited to use graphs and the Visual Micro debugging tools. This page briefly describes some basic features of the Visual Micro Serial Debugger for Arduino ( also works with software serial, xbee, bluetooth etc.).
“Each Portenta H7 comes with a unique serial number which can be displayed in the Arduino IDE or TRACE32. This serial number can be used to obtain a free license via the Lauterbach registration page – once you’ve submitted your details you will receive an email with your license to unlock the full version of the TRACE32 debugger.
For those users who need advanced capabilities, such as JTAG debugging and real-time trace a carrier module is available. This module makes the debug and trace pins available to the TRACE32 uTrace® for Cortex-M (MIPI20T), and the switch to TRACE32 uTrace® for Cortex-M is almost transparent to the user.”
“This is a meeting of minds of two of the biggest forces in embedded computing and I am waiting with anticipation to see where the vibrant Arduino community takes this,” said Maurizio Menegotto, Managing Director of Lauterbach SRL. “We are honored to be working with Arduino on this exciting project and look forward to welcoming the next generation of embedded engineers to the Lauterbach community.”
“We are more than happy about the partnership between Arduino and Lauterbach, which will enable our customers to benefit from an advanced debugger tool, fundamental for each professional application,” added Andrea Richetta, Arduino Pro BU Leader.
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Source : Arduino : Lauterbach
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