ValueAnalyzer for ARM is a tool for static analysis of register and memory contents.
It is particularly useful for verifying the absence of illegal accesses to an embedded
software system from within third-party modules provided as object code.
Key benefits
- The analysis is fully automatic and valid for all inputs.
No input patterns need to be provided.
- The analysis performed by ValueAnalyzer is conservative, i.e. the results are safe.
All illegal accesses that are present will also be reported.
- Supplied third-party software can be analyzed right away.
It does not have to be integrated on the ECU.
- No debug information is required. The results are not affected by
possible bugs in the debug output.
- Seamless integration with other analysis tools from AbsInt
(e.g. StackAnalyzer
for stack usage analysis) in a single intuitive user interface.
Recently added features
- Support for the Keil MDK-ARM compiler suite.
- Improved results viewer that allows a more interactive exploration of analysis results.
- Improved visualization of infeasible routines and blocks.
- Infeasibility statistics in textual report.
- Improved function-pointer resolution.
- Improved precision by using sets of intervals.
- Better support for tail optimization.
- Improved error messages and warnings.
- Improved detection of computed branch and call targets by iterative decoding.
- Improved annotation help.
- Improved stack pointer guessing.
Supported compilers
- Texas Instruments TMS 470 compiler
- ARM Developer Suite C compiler from a restricted subset of ANSI C
- GNU C Compiler (GCC)
- Green Hills MULTI for ARM
- NEW: Keil MDK-ARM compiler suite
Supported processor derivates
- ARM1
- ARM2
- ARM3
- ARM6
- ARM7
- ARM7TDMI
- ARM7EJ
- StrongARM
- ARM9TDMI
- ARM9E
- ARM10E
- XScale
- ARM11
- ARM Cortex
System requirements
- 32-bit Windows (7, Vista, XP SP2), 64-bit Windows (7, Vista), 32-bit and 64-bit Linux
- 1 GB RAM (4 GB RAM recommended)
- 500 MB disk space