Lauterbach at HISC 2026: Making Complexity Manageable – Integrated Debugging, Profiling, and Test Workflows for Reliable Safety-Critical Software

Posted on September 17, 2026

As connectivity and software complexity grow, safety-critical systems increasingly rely on multiple processor cores, operating systems, languages, and components working together—each with different safety, real-time, and certification requirements. This heterogeneity brings benefits: tasks go to the most suitable cores, safety-critical functions are separated from less critical ones, and teams choose the best toolchain for each part. Yet it creates a challenge: faults often occur not within a single application, but at the boundaries between cores, domains, and runtime environments.

At HISC 2026, Lauterbach shows how TRACE32® makes this manageable through a live demonstration of heterogeneous multicore debugging: a Rust program runs on one core while an Ada application executes on a second. TRACE32® lets developers examine both simultaneously—alongside standard C++ code—control execution, analyze behavior in a shared time context, and reveal how components interact, including multicore interference. Without such a system-wide approach, teams risk investigating components in isolation and overlooking decisive relationships.

For safety-critical software, finding bugs isnt enough—teams must also demonstrate that requirements are met, code is tested completely and traceably, and time-critical processes work under realistic conditions. This is why combining debugging, test automation, and analysis is increasingly important.

Lauterbach will also demonstrate TRACE32®'s compatibility with the AdaCore GNAT Pro™ toolchain, enabling direct connection to third-party tools such as the Rapita Verification Suite (RVS). This links debugging, runtime measurement, test execution, and coverage analysis without switching tool environments. Teams can correlate test results directly with TRACE32®s target-level view, investigating failures or timing issues down to the instruction, memory, and core level—shortening troubleshooting and strengthening the basis for certification.

Visit Lauterbach's booth at HISC 2026 to see how TRACE32®, with Rapita RVS and GNAT, helps teams develop complex, safety-critical systems transparently and reliably.