* Provide easy integration into existing projects with just as little overhead as possible. * Remove the profiling mechanism during compile and runtime from the code. * Open Source & Easy to use

* The current implementation supports logging transaction level traces. * It has tracing routines for both OSCI's TLM2 tlm_generic_payload objects, and also for a custom Trace object for non-TLM2 applications. * The Tracer generates an XML file consistent with the DTD that defines Scanion’s .scnx file format. * This allows it to be directly visualized and analyzed in Scansion, and since it is an open XML format you can easily write other tools that can read this output.