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FrankenTrace: Low-Cost, Cycle-Level, Widely Applicable Program Execution Tracing for ARM Cortex-M SoC

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Maciej Matraszek,

Mateusz Banaszek,

Wojciech Ciszewski,

Konrad IwanickiAuthors Info & Claims

CPS-IoT Week '23: Proceedings of Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week 2023

Pages 72 - 77

https://doi.org/10.1145/3576914.3587521

Published: 09 May 2023 Publication History

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Program execution tracing is an important technique in software development and analysis. However, noninvasively obtaining cycle-level traces for modern low-power ARMv7-M-based SoCs is challenging, because convenient off-the-shelf high-speed tracing probes are expensive and cannot be applied to SoCs that lack high-speed debug components, notably Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) and parallel tracing port (PTP). To address this issue, in this work, we present FrankenTrace, a technique for generating full, noninvasive, cycle-level program counter traces and full, cycle-level data transfer traces of varying invasiveness on SoCs with only low-speed debug components, namely Debug Watchpoint and Trace unit (DWT), Instrumentation Trace Macrocell (ITM), Single Wire Output (SWO), and an inexpensive probe. We demonstrate the technique by tracing software running on a node of the 1KT testbed.

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Feng ZMa JShrivastava ASui Y(2024)TWFuzz: Fuzzing Embedded Systems with Three WiresProceedings of the 25th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems10.1145/3652032.3657568(107-118)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2024
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FrankenTrace: Low-Cost, Cycle-Level, Widely Applicable Program Execution Tracing for ARM Cortex-M SoC
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software verification and validation
      1. Process validation
        Traceability
      2. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Embedded software

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CPS-IoT Week '23: Proceedings of Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week 2023

May 2023

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DOI:10.1145/3576914

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Feng ZMa JShrivastava ASui Y(2024)TWFuzz: Fuzzing Embedded Systems with Three WiresProceedings of the 25th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED International Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems10.1145/3652032.3657568(107-118)Online publication date: 20-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3652032.3657568

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