Adventures in Debugging: Real-World Troubleshooting Techniques for Cortex-M Devices

This 30-minute video from Arm Software Developers explores real-world debugging challenges encountered while working with Cortex-M devices. Dive into a collection of troubleshooting adventures that demonstrate practical debugging techniques and tools. Learn about memory leak detection, solving the "teleporting buoys" problem, addressing leap year bugs, diagnosing mysterious serial data corruption, and uncovering hidden hardware issues with chip select functionality. Discover valuable debugging approaches including GDB with Python, signal probing techniques, tracing methods with and without ETM, remote device debugging strategies, and effective logging practices. The presentation walks through each debugging scenario chronologically, starting with an introduction, progressing through various case studies, and concluding with key debugging lessons and best practices for embedded systems developers.