ABOUT · BREAKPOINTDS-0007 · REV C · 2026
Embedded hardware was democratized. Advanced tooling was not.
Breakpoint builds trace, observability, and validation tools for embedded engineers.
We turn the data already available inside modern silicon into a clear, useful view of how embedded systems behave.
Better visibility changes how embedded systems get built.
When engineers can see what happened before a fault and reproduce it, difficult problems become evidence to inspect instead of behavior to guess at.
For semiconductor companies
Good tools help customers realize the value already designed into the chip. They speed bring-up, expose advanced features, and give FAEs clearer context when support gets difficult.
For early-stage teams and education
Startups can bring complex designs to market with fewer blind spots; universities can teach the trace concepts students will meet in industry.
For engineering teams
Complex failures become records teams can replay, measure, and share. That shortens diagnosis and makes development and validation less dependent on one engineer's intuition.
For the ecosystem
Shared execution records create a bridge between chip vendors, tool makers, and product teams. A failure can be captured once, handed off, and investigated without reconstructing it from a verbal report.
Silicon vendors and the teams building on their parts.
Semiconductor companies
We partner on early-silicon enablement, internal tooling, launch support, technical integration, and co-marketing. The aim is to make each device's debug architecture useful from evaluation through production, without exclusivity.
Embedded engineering teams
We work with organizations shipping embedded products as early customers and design partners. Their real bring-up, field-debug, validation, and hardware-in-the-loop workflows shape what we build and how it fits into existing toolchains.
Modern chips produce rich trace data. Most engineers cannot use it.
A developer can evaluate powerful microcontrollers for tens of dollars, but accessing their most capable trace features can require thousands of dollars in dedicated hardware and enterprise software. That mismatch has left most engineers relying on breakpoints, printf, partial logs, and whatever functionality ships with an inexpensive development board.
Premium platforms serve their customers well. The overlooked opportunity is the team that needs deeper visibility but cannot make traditional pricing, hardware, or procurement fit its workflow.
The real competitor is not another debugger. It is deciding to buy nothing, accept limited visibility, and keep debugging the hard way.