CEO and Founder

Percepio

Dr. Johan Kraft is CEO and founder of Percepio AB. Dr. Kraft is the original developer of Percepio Tracealyzer, a tool for visual trace diagnostics that provides insight into runtime systems to accelerate embedded software development. His applied academic research, in collaboration with industry, focused on embedded software timing analysis. Prior to founding Percepio in 2009, he worked in embedded software development at ABB Robotics. Dr. Kraft holds a PhD in computer science.

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IoT

Five Reasons Why the IoT Industry Needs to Embrace the Device Feedback Loop - Blog

February 18, 2022

How often do you notice things like in this photo?

Debug & Test

Painless Multithreading: Five Easy Tips to Get Out of Debugging Hell - Story

December 06, 2021

One of the more underappreciated aspects of a multithreaded RTOS application is that you cannot just look at the code to fully understand how the application works.

Software & OS

RTOS debugging, part 5: Deadlock ? when everybody wants the fork - Other

October 17, 2017

A clear indication that you may have a deadlock problem is when multiple tasks suddenly stop executing, although no higher priority tasks are running.

Open Source

RTOS debugging, part 4: Priority inversion ? when the important stuff has to wait - Other

October 10, 2017

As a developer, you have to watch out for programming pitfalls that can result in a higher priority task having to wait for a lower priority task ? this condition is known as priority inversion.

Open Source

RTOS debugging, part 3: Chasing the jitter bug - Other

September 27, 2017

The visible symptoms of jitter can be very similar to what you see in a system that suffers from CPU starvation, from general sluggishness to intermittent data loss or even malfunction.

Processing

RTOS debugging, part 2: Your tasks need that CPU; don?t starve them of it - Other

September 05, 2017

In embedded systems using multitasking, you may run into a situation where some of your tasks run slowly or not at all. This is called task starvation.

Software & OS

RTOS debugging, part 1: Dealing with timing issues - Other

August 29, 2017

There are several reasons that debugging an RTOS system is different from debugging a single-threaded ?superloop? system where you wrote all code yourself, but these are the top two.

Software & OS

RTOS in the IoT: Combating Complexity with Control - Story

October 24, 2016

In the near future, almost everything will be connected to the Internet ­- at least, that's the vision for the Internet of Things (IoT). This vision...

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