This white paper is the first paper of a two-part Mentor Embedded multicore white paper series. In this paper, the challenges software developers face when developing, debugging, and validating software applications for a complex multicore system will be discussed. The paper also highlights some of the questions around hardware resource usage, tracing aids, tracing domains, and concepts for collecting trace data.

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