diff --git a/CODEOWNERS b/CODEOWNERS
index e8a02dcf32..e766eac362 100644
--- a/CODEOWNERS
+++ b/CODEOWNERS
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@
 /scripts/net/                             @jukkar @pfl
 /scripts/process_gperf.py                 @andrewboie
 /scripts/gen_relocate_app.py              @wentongwu
+/scripts/tracing/                         @wentongwu
 /scripts/sanity_chk/                      @nashif
 /scripts/sanitycheck                      @nashif
 /scripts/series-push-hook.sh              @erwango
diff --git a/scripts/tracing/trace_capture_uart.py b/scripts/tracing/trace_capture_uart.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..03316cd98c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/tracing/trace_capture_uart.py
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019 Intel Corporation.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""
+Script to capture tracing data with UART backend.
+"""
+
+import sys
+import serial
+import argparse
+
+def parse_args():
+    global args
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description=__doc__,
+        formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
+    parser.add_argument("-d", "--serial_port", required=True,
+                        help="serial port")
+    parser.add_argument("-b", "--serial_baudrate", required=True,
+                        help="serial baudrate")
+    parser.add_argument("-o", "--output", default='channel0_0',
+                        required=False, help="tracing data output file")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+def main():
+    parse_args()
+    serial_port = args.serial_port
+    serial_baudrate = args.serial_baudrate
+    output_file = args.output
+    try:
+        ser = serial.Serial(serial_port, serial_baudrate)
+        ser.isOpen()
+    except serial.SerialException as e:
+        sys.exit("{}".format(e))
+
+    print("serial open success")
+
+    #enable device tracing
+    ser.write("enable\r".encode())
+
+    with open(output_file, "wb") as file_desc:
+        while True:
+            count = ser.inWaiting()
+            if count > 0:
+                while count > 0:
+                    data = ser.read()
+                    file_desc.write(data)
+                    count -= 1
+
+    ser.close()
+
+if __name__=="__main__":
+    try:
+        main()
+    except KeyboardInterrupt:
+        print('Data capture interrupted, data saved into {}'.format(args.output))
+        sys.exit(0)