I’m working on a conference paper and presentation, and tonight I had a break-through :-). So how cool is this: Profiling with GNU gprof a bare-metal embedded Cortex-M application (Freescale Kinetis K64F running the Freescale Kinetis SDK) in Eclipse:
Freescale Kinetis Microcontroller Application Profiling
It gives me information about how many times a function is called, and an estimate how much time is spent in each. I was waiting for soooooo long time to have something like this possible and in my hand! And best of all: free-of-charge and open source :-): all what is needed is an ARM Cortex-M (e.g. Freescale Kinetis) board, GNU with Eclipse or Kinetis Design Studio and a Segger J-Link for semi-hosting. It is using the GNU ARM Embedded Launchpad tools and it runs right now on a Freescale FRDM-K64F board, but any other board/device will do it too.
So after gcov (Coverage) I have gprof (Profiling) running on Kinetis :-).
Now I need to clean up the project and sources, write my paper, presentation and write a blog article about this. And a few hours of sleep…..
Happy Profiling 🙂
PS: Note to myself: next time submitting a paper proposal to a conference. *First* implement that cool idea so you *know* it is going to work, and *then* submit that cool idea to the conference. NOT the other way round ;-).
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Is it for the ECC? I’m looking forward to attending your presentation…
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Hi Martin,
yes, this is for ECC15 (Embedded Computing Conference 2015). Looking forward to see you there…
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I’ve been looking for embedded workshops/conferences to attend but… not many. I checked out the event, seems too soon. And the page is not in English, no English version 😦 .
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Yes, the ECC is very soon. As it is more a local (Switzerland/Germany/Austria) event, the event pages are in German, and not English.
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I like it!, would it work with all cortex processors using eclipse like the NXP LPC’s?
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Hi Carl,
Yes, it should. What you need is an ARM Cortex with GNU tools (GNU ARM Embedded (launchpad) is what I use). Plus a debug probe with full semihosting support (I use Segger J-Link). I’m late with writing my article about it (I underestimated the level of details and needed time for it), but I should have it ready somewhat this week.
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