Performance Measurement/Analysis Tool mevalet

Recently embedded software development has noticeably been increasing in scale and complexity, and reductions in the delivery term and improvements in development efficiency have now become critical management issues. To deal with them, NEC has developed a performance measurement/analysis tool called "mevalet," which is compatible with Linux running on ARM CPU, and features an added data save function using a miniSD card instead of a data transfer function that uses the network. This tool has improved the development efficiency significantly, making it possible to solve a performance issue that has not previously been solvable however hard we tried. This paper is intended to introduce this tool together with a description of cases in which it was actually applied in in-house embedded software development.