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of comprehension about hardware and software, compared to the general software’s project.
In addition, an embedded system’s project has a lot of hardware constraints. Due to these
characteristics of an embedded system, it is not easy to propose a solution for the problem
which occurs during project development. These days various solutions for these problems
are proposed.
Among the many solutions for analysis problems describes how to use the event log.
� Kernel processes many events such as memory-related events, system call events,
network-related events in a very short time. These events help to analyze problems
and suggest a solution to developers. Hence, we re-define the logging information to
analyze these events information.
� Generally, there are two main ways to analyze event information. First, it is to
visualize kernel events. This way can analyze the problem approximately but not
exactly. Another way is to print the event log in the text mode. It is very efficient
when a developer needs to analyze a problem exactly. Therefore, by using the test
mode’s advantage, we will find problems and suggest solutions.
� It requires much time and effort to find problems in the kernel mode compared to in
the user mode [63]. Therefore, the tool for detecting the kernel problem and fixing it
up is very important in the embedded system development.
While the embedded system development, there are a lot of important factors such as
hardware, development time, development costs. Same as these factors, the analysis tool is
the one of the most important factor in the development environment for embedded systems.