See What Your Firmware and Hardware Are Doing Without Halting Either
Firmware execution, hardware signals, and power are time-aligned in a single capture. No halting. No guessing.
“This tool is up there on my favorites list… so if you’re into hardware and firmware development, you must absolutely give this a try…”
- VOLTLOG YouTube Review
Meet the new
Active-Pro Debugger & Logic Analyzer
Active-Pro combines a high-performance logic analyzer with real-time firmware instrumentation, giving you:
Full visibility of firmware events without halting code.
Automatic channel detection: plug in, press capture, see data. No configuration required.
Time-correlated traces linking code to actual hardware signals.
A tool that works where traditional analyzers and JTAG stop helping.
Debugging now at:
Step 1:
Instrumentation and Trace
with Near-Zero Firmware Impact
Instrument your Firmware
Press Capture
The Active-Pro uses the Active Debug Port, a high-clock-rate debug interface that delivers sub-microsecond output so instrumentation runs alongside your firmware instead of interrupting it. It can be driven from simple GPIO for quick bring-up, or from MCU hardware blocks like SPI and SWD that offload the processor completely, avoiding the throughput limits of traditional UART-based debug methods. Clock and data lines are automatically sensed and PC-side setup is fully automatic, making hookup fast with no configuration required. When you press capture, you get several orders of magnitude more debug throughput than UART, presenting firmware execution, timing, and hardware behavior together in a single, time-aligned view that gives you the exact data you need to find and fix bugs fast.
Step 2:
See Cause and Effect Across Your Entire System
Firmware debug output, transitions, states, hardware signals, and bus activity captured in sync, visualized live. Whether you're working on a single or multiple MCUs and FPGAs, it all lines up in one synchronized timeline.
Watch Firmware Algorithms
The Active-Pro Debugger shows live internal variables as your algorithm runs, so you can focus on the actual computation, not just the outputs. Watch loop iterations, filter coefficients, and intermediate values update in real time as your algorithm runs. No breakpoints, no disruption to timing.
See Firmware States and Variables
Viewing firmware debug output alongside hardware signals on a synchronized timeline shows exactly what your system is doing and when. You can instantly see the cause and effect between your code, I/O, and communication events, even across multiple processors, making deep firmware issues much faster to isolate and fix.
Correlate Bus Traffic Directly to the Firmware Sending It
The Active-Pro Debugger lets you see both sides of the communication, what's happening on the bus and what your firmware is doing to send and receive it. By combining external signal monitoring with internal trace points, it exposes issues between processors and FPGAs that traditional tools miss.
Measure Current and Hardware Signals
The Active-Pro Debugger links source code to current changes during power mode transitions, so you can see exactly what code is running as power ramps up or down. It shows real-time power behavior, helping you tighten up power management code and improve reliability—especially in battery-powered systems.
Debug Multiple Processors and FPGAs in Real-Time
The Active-Pro Debugger streams all data to disk so you can capture long test cycles without missing anything. While recording, it gives you a live view of system behavior and overlays multiple data streams for full context. It’s built for tough environments like automotive and aerospace, where catching rare issues fast matters.
Watch Hands-On Debugging of Multiprocessor Embedded Systems Firmware & Hardware
In this video, we explore the unique challenges of debugging multiprocessor embedded systems, where timing and inter-processor communication can make bugs almost impossible to reproduce with traditional tools. You’ll see how the Active-Pro Debugger gives you real-time visibility across multiple processors and buses, making it easier to track down race conditions, synchronization problems, and unexpected interactions with confidence.
Stop Guessing. Start Seeing.
Active-Pro shows you everything. All at once. Without stopping anything.
Captures what you need to find, understand, and fix your bugs
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