RVS 3.25 brings improved zero-footprint analysis to more platforms

RVS 3.25 brings a range of enhancements to help you get more from zero-footprint analysis using hardware trace data. The release improves the reporting and robustness of zero-footprint analysis and adds support for new embedded platforms, all without requiring instrumentation of your application code.

Get clearer results from your trace data

Zero-footprint analysis lets you collect timing, coverage and task-level information without modifying the production code or affecting its execution. This can be especially useful when working with resource-constrained targets, legacy or third-party software, and systems where maintaining the integrity of the executable is essential.

In RVS 3.25, we’ve improved several areas of zero-footprint analysis:

• Enhanced address-to-source mapping
• Improved detection of conditional branches
• Better handling of consecutive branch events
• Improved support for periodic synchronization events during branch trace analysis

Together, these changes improve reporting of coverage and execution information, helping you spend less time interpreting trace data and more time using the results to support your verification activities.

Use zero-footprint analysis on more targets

RVS 3.25 also extends zero-footprint support to more embedded targets. 

A new Platform Support Package (PSP) adds support for uC/OS-II+MMU on ARM processors, and support has been extended to ARM Cortex-M7 processor cores.

Coverage, timing and scheduling analysis without instrumentation

The RVS zero-footprint product family supports three key areas of software verification:

RapiCover^Zero
Generate code coverage evidence from hardware trace data without instrumenting your application code.

RapiTime^Zero
Analyze application timing and execution characteristics non-intrusively using target trace data.

RapiTask^Zero
Understand task scheduling and system behavior without modifying the software under test.

The enhancements in RVS 3.25 help you generate stronger verification evidence while preserving the behavior of the software you need to assess.

Find out more

• RapiCover^Zero for coverage analysis
• RapiTime^Zero for timing analysis
• RapiTask^Zero for scheduling visualization