Advanced Trace Software Pack

Overview

The Advanced Trace utility is a trace management system for STM32 microcontrollers.

Description and Usage

Description

This utility is used for debugging or for communication with another system, such as a console or monitoring tool, over UART or a custom input/output interface.

The main features of Advanced Trace are:

• Adjustable FIFO size
• Custom FIFO memory address
• Conditional tracing (verbosity, region masks)
• Trace timestamping
• Overrun detection and reporting
• Unchunked continuous streaming
• Trace data reception by the application

Usage

The start-up sequence can be split into three steps:

Step 1: Advanced Trace initialization

Initialize the Advanced Trace with the selected interface handle by calling ADV_TRACE_Init(&io_handle).

Step 2: Reception initialization (optional)

Optionally enable reception by calling ADV_TRACE_StartRxProcess(RxCallback)

Step 3: Trace sending

Send trace data using ADV_TRACE_FSend(const char *fmt, ...) over the configured interface.