RapiTimeZero significantly reduces the effort required to verify software timing behavior by automatically producing software timing metrics from branch traces. This innovative approach eliminates the need for source code or instrumentation, requiring only a disassembly of the application alongside system hardware-produced branch traces. The high-water mark execution time results generated by RapiTimeZero provide crucial evidence that code meets its timing deadlines, which is particularly vital for safety-critical applications. The software helps developers identify code elements that contribute most significantly to overall execution time, allowing them to focus optimization efforts on sections that will genuinely improve worst-case timing behavior, rather than just average-case performance. Furthermore, RapiTimeZero simplifies the debugging of rare timing events by allowing users to step through program execution much like a traditional code debugger, making it easier to pinpoint elusive issues. Its seamless integration with continuous integration tools like Jenkins and Bamboo enables ongoing verification, allowing teams to collect timing results and track project progress over time, and quickly identify execution time anomalies with every new build. A key advantage is its ability to analyze the timing behavior of third-party libraries or other software components even when source code access is unavailable, as it operates solely on branch traces and disassembly.

Features & Benefits

• Zero-Footprint Timing Analysis
  • Collects timing metrics from systems producing branch traces without requiring source code or instrumentation, simplifying verification.
• Worst-Case Behavior Optimization
  • Identifies code elements with the highest contribution to overall execution time, enabling focused optimization efforts for worst-case timing.
• Rare Timing Event Debugging
  • Facilitates the debugging of infrequent timing issues by allowing step-by-step program execution analysis, similar to a code debugger.
• CI Tool Integration
  • Simplifies continuous verification by integrating with tools like Jenkins and Bamboo, enabling tracking of timing results and anomaly detection on every new build.
• Library Analysis Without Source Code
  • Analyzes the timing behavior of third-party libraries or other software components even without access to their source code, using only branch traces and disassembly.