Lauterbach GmbH () is a German
electronic design automation firm
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Company members share a common purpose and unite to achieve specific, declared go ...
specializing in
in-circuit emulators and
logic analyzer
A logic analyzer is an electronic instrument that captures and displays multiple signals from a digital system or digital circuit. A logic analyzer may convert the captured data into timing diagrams, protocol decodes, state machine traces, a ...
s used for
debugging embedded system
An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is ''embedded'' ...
s. The firm was founded in 1979 by Lothar Lauterbach. In 2009 the firm was renamed from Lauterbach Datentechnik GmbH to Lauterbach GmbH.
The company serves a niche-market of in-circuit emulators, especially on systems using
JTAG, which it sells under the brand name TRACE32. It is the global market leader in the area of hardware assisted debug tools for embedded systems, with over 80000 development seats sold. They have delivered 65000 debug licenses for the popular
ARM microprocessor alone, and they support all available ARM cores.
Lauterbach has participated in the following international committees over the past years:
Nexus (standard),
MIPI Debug Working Group, SPRINT Forum and
Power.org
Power.org was an organization to develop and promote Power Architecture technology by establishing its open standards, guidelines, best practices, and certifications.
Power.org was founded in 2004 by IBM and 15 other companies. Freescale (later ...
.
Lauterbach has local subsidiaries in United Kingdom, United States, Japan, France, Italy, China and Tunisia. The company is privately held by the founding family, with the two brothers Lothar and Stephan Lauterbach as its directors. Dr. Thomas Ullmann was appointed as additional managing director in March 2020.
In 2017, Lauterbach was selected as a development partner by
SiFive to develop the first comprehensive
RISC-V
RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five" where five refers to the number of generations of RISC architecture that were developed at the University of California, Berkeley since 1981) is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on estab ...
debugging toolset, adding support for the RISC-V debug specification to TRACE32.
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Electronic design automation companies
Companies based in Bavaria
Electronics companies of Germany