As embedded systems become more connected and complex, ensuring their security and reliability is no longer optional – it’s a regulatory necessity. The European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a clear signal that manufacturers must take proactive measures to secure their products, not just during development but throughout their operational lifespan. One crucial aspect of this is real-time monitoring of devices in all phases of the product lifecycle – what we at Percepio call Continuous Observability.

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Percepio announced its Percepio Detect, a new tool redefining how embedded software developers confront testing, debugging, and observability challenges. Percepio Detect supports Observability Driven Development (ODD), enhancing DevOps for embedded systems through its seamless extension of CI/CT workflows.

As an embedded software engineer at Percepio frequently supporting our customers, I've witnessed first-hand the debugging nightmares developers often face when working with RTOS-based firmware. The complexities of large multi-threaded software systems can make debugging an incredibly frustrating and time-consuming experience. Sometimes you don’t even know where to begin, what parts of the code to focus the debugging on. You step through thousands of code lines without finding any explanation. If you are lucky, you finally spot some clue that gets you on the right track, but it might have taken you several days or weeks to get this far.

Västerås, Sweden. Percepio revealed that its Percepio DevAlert and its Device Firmware Monitor (DFM) solutions earned a technical cybersecurity review certificate by independent cybersecurity firm Triop AB. During the review, there were no found critical, high, medium, or low-impact security vulnerabilities.

Västerås, Sweden, Percepio AB is supporting the release of the fifth-generation RTOS, the PX5. The PX5 RTOS operated on a native implementation of the standard POSIX pThreads API. It will embed the Percepio Tracealyzer 4.6 trace recorder with Percepio supporting the PX5 RTOS with a commercially accessible solution.

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