TinyDebug: Multi-Purpose Passive Debugging Framework for Embedded Wireless Systems

Resumé

Debugging embedded wireless systems can be cumbersome

due to low visibility. To ease the task of debugging this

paper present TinyDebug which is a multi-purpose passive

debugging framework for developing embedded wireless sys-

tems. TinyDebug is designed to be used throughout the

entire system development process, ranging from simulation

to actual deployment. TinyDebug provides out-of-the-box

message oriented debugging and event logging mechanism

while enabling more advanced debugging techniques to pro-

cess the same debug events.

We present the TinyDebug framework with all its features

from event logging to extraction and show how the frame-

work improves upon existing message based and event log-

ging debugging techniques while enabling distributed event

processing. We also present a number of optional event anal-

ysis tools demon