Tracing is a common method used to debug, analyze, and monitor various systems. Even though standard tools and tracing methodologies exist for standard and distributed environments, it is not the case for heterogeneous embedded systems. This paper proposes to fill this gap and discusses how efficient tracing can be achieved without having common system tools, such as the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTTng), at hand on every core. We propose a generic solution to trace embedded heterogeneous systems and overcome the challenges brought by their peculiar architectures (little available memory, bare-metal CPUs, or exotic components for instance). The solution described in this paper focuses on a generic way of correlating traces among different kinds of processors through traces synchronization, to analyze the global state of the system as a whole. The proposed solution was first tested on the Adapteva Parallella board. It was then improved and thoroughly validated on TI's Keystone 2 System-on-Chip (SoC).
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