Intel® System Studio 2015 Beta - What's New

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What’s new

New Platform support for latest Intel® Atom™ Processor and Intel® Core™ Processor based platforms.

Please check with us for early access to upcoming Processor support under non-disclosure agreement.

Use Intel® System Studio to develop system software and debug for all upcoming mobile embedded platforms

Enhanced Intel® Quark SoC X1000 support

Support and optimizations for

• Intel® C++ Compiler
• Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives
• Intel® System Debugger – OpenOCD* communication protocol support for low-cost JTAG devices
• Intel® System Debugger – agent (BIOS)-based UEFI debug support

Intel® VTune™ Amplifier for Systems

GPU profiling for Android*

Driverless solutions:

• EBS collection via Perf*on Linux
• Android* frameworks events collection via F-Trace*.

New Getting Started Tutorial for Android*

ART* profiling support

Apple* OS X* host support

Additional minor new features

• Hotspots, General Exploration and Custom EBS analysis types on Linux and Android
• An option to limit the call stack size (in system pages) and minimize collection overhead
• for custom hardware event-based sampling analysis result.
• An option to display verbose collection and finalization messages in the Collection Log  window
• Support for importing csv files with instant counters collected out of the VTune™ Amplifier with the external collector
• Support for GPU analysis on remote Android* target systems (with Intel HD Graphics) from Linux* and Windows* host systems
• Support for custom data collection of Android framework and chipset events
• Lightweight integration of the VTune™ Amplifier to the Eclipse* IDE with the toolbar
• access to the standalone version of the VTune™ Amplifier
• New Finding Hotspots on an Android Platform tutorial accompanied with the C++ code
• example and providing instructions for the Basic Hotspots analysis on a remote Android system

Intel® Inspector for Systems

New uninitialized memory error algorithm – substantially reduces number of false positives

Independent control of uninitialized memory analysis

Improved on-demand leak detection and memory growth interface

Major improvement in threading error analysis

GDB* - The GNU Debugger

Update to GDB* 7.7

Remote debug support with gdbserver for Android*

Eclipse* integration

Intel® System Debugger

Launch plug-ins for Eclipse* and Wind River* Workbench*

Instruction trace window and source-level instruction flow visualization improvements

Linux* host support for Intel® Atom™ Processor C2xxx, E3xxx, Z32xx, Z33xx as well as 4th generation Intel® Core™ Pprocessors and Intel® Xeon™ Processors

Wind River* VxWorks* 7 kernel module and task awareness

PCI Scan Tool Technology Preview

3^rd generation Intel® Core™ Processor support available on request

Support for OpenOCD* and compatible JTAG devices for Intel® Quark SoC

• TinCanTools* FLYSWATTER2
• Olimex* ARM-USB-OCD-H

Intel® C++ Compiler

Native code generation support for Intel® Graphics Technology for Linux* targets

Latest Embedded Linux* and Android* target OS support

New  Optimization  Report  interface,  structure,  and  options  (strongly  recommended  to

read  for  users  of  existing  options  -opt-report,  -vec-report,  -openmp-report,  and  -parreport)

Full C++11 language support (includes these feature new to 15.0) (-std=c++11)

Intel® Math Kernel Library

New Intel® Atom™ Processor optimizations

Added the ability to link a Single Dynamic Library (mkl_rt) on Intel® Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel® MIC Architecture)

Added a customizable error handler.See the Intel® MKL Reference Manual description of mkl_set_exit_handler() for further details

Intel® MKL PARDISO:

• Added the ability to store Intel® MKL PARDISO handle to the disk for future use at any solver stage
• Added pivot control support for unsymmetric matrices and out-of-core mode
• Added diagonal extraction support for unsymmetric matrices and out-of-core mode

Intel® Math Kernel Library Cookbook, a new document with recipes for assembling Intel® MKL routines for solving complex problems