Guide to Intel Debug and Trace – 2022 Edition

Updated for 2022 with new content on Architectural Event Trace (AET) and At-Speed Printf (ASPf), this eBook is full of helpful tips and techniques for both novice and experienced debug engineers. It’s a book you’ll pull off the shelf time and again when those nasty bugs raise their heads.

Table of Contents

• UEFI development
• Possible Debug Use Cases and Features
• Debug topologies vs chip type
• Event Trace
• Introduction to Trace Hub and its relation to Intel PT
• How Trace Hub can shorten the time to find the really hard bugs
• What it takes to use the Trace Hub
• STM via Trace Hub overcomes performance issues of Printf techniques
• Architectural Event Trace (AET)
• Instruction Trace
• How Intel Processor Trace compresses the information
• Trace features used by ASSET InterTech’s SourcePoint tools
• The older Intel Trace methods
• Use Models and Advantages for High Speed Trace
• How Trace can be displayed in modern tools like SourcePoint
• Call Graph Display
• Using the Statistics View to Tune Execution Times
• Other Features of SourcePoint that Make Use of Trace
• Debug Consent Considerations
• The transition to DCI