  Embedded Software development and optimization are complex tasks. Late
availably of hardware platforms, their usual low visibility and
controllability, and their limiting resource constraints makes early
performance estimation an attractive option instead of using the final
execution platform. With early performance estimation, software development can
progress although the real hardware is not yet available or it is too complex
to interact with. In this paper, we present how the native simulation framework
SCoPE is extended to generate OTF trace files. Those trace files can be later
visualized with trace visualization tools, which recently were only used to
optimize HPC workloads in order to iterate in the development process.
