Aveksha: a hardware-software approach for non-intrusive tracing and profiling of wireless embedded systems

@inproceedings{Creti2011AvekshaAH,
  title={Aveksha: a hardware-software approach for non-intrusive tracing and profiling of wireless embedded systems},
  author={Matthew Tan Creti and Mohammad Sajjad Hossain and Saurabh Bagchi and Vijay Raghunathan},
  booktitle={SenSys},
  year={2011}
}
It is important to get an idea of the events occurring in an embedded wireless node when it is deployed in the field, away from the convenience of an interactive debugger. Such visibility can be useful for post-deployment testing, replay-based debugging, and for performance and energy profiling of various software components. Prior software-based solutions to address this problem have incurred high execution overhead and intrusiveness. The intrusiveness changes the intrinsic timing behavior of… Expand
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