Debug and trace tools for embedded systems across 15,000+ processor cores
Lauterbach manufactures TRACE32, a hardware and software debugging platform for embedded systems that operates across ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, and dozens of proprietary processor architectures. The company is actively exploring AI-based search solutions and modernizing its documentation pipeline with AI tooling—a signal that a 45-year-old embedded-focused vendor is beginning to integrate LLMs into developer experience. The engineering-heavy hiring mix (primarily mid-level and intern/lead roles in Germany and Tunisia) reflects a product-mature organization maintaining and extending an established tool rather than scaling rapidly.
Lauterbach develops TRACE32, a debug and trace platform used across automotive, medical, renewable energy, and consumer electronics sectors. The product supports JTAG, SWD, NEXUS, and ETM protocols across over 15,000 processor cores and 250 CPU families, including ARM Cortex variants, PowerArchitecture, TriCore, and RH850. The company was founded in 1979 and operates from headquarters near Munich with branch offices in France, Italy, the UK, USA, Japan, China, and Tunisia. Development is organized around hardware trace systems, embedded debuggers, and software tooling for Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms, with ongoing work on Python-based graphical debugging applications and processor demonstration environments.
TRACE32 is a debug and trace tool for embedded systems that supports over 15,000 processor cores across 250 CPU families, including ARM Cortex-A/-M/-R, PowerArchitecture, TriCore, RH850, and MIPS. It provides hardware and software trace, logic analysis, and embedded debugging capabilities.
Core stack: C/C++, Python, Ruby. Platforms: Windows, Linux, macOS. Hardware: ARM, PowerPC, VHDL. Documentation tools: Doxygen, Adobe FrameMaker. In-house tool: TRACE32.
Lauterbach is headquartered in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Bavaria, Germany, near Munich. It has branch offices in France, Italy, the UK, USA, Japan, China, and Tunisia.
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