SEGGER presents an embOS port for the Renesas Electronics’ automotive RH850 MCU Family. The efficiency of embOS complements the high-performance and very low power consumption characteristics that are inherent within RH850 MCUs. The embOS port comes with board support packages for all popular Renesas RH850 MCUs plus their related evaluation boards.

In order to make it easy to get true instruction trace up and running, SEGGER has just introduced the new Cortex-M Trace reference board. This compact board now ships with every J-Trace PRO for Cortex-M. It can also be purchased apart from the J-Trace PRO unit, so every customer can take advantage of the new reference board. By referring to the detailed tutorial on the SEGGER web site, engineers can experience streaming trace, real-time code...

  Enhancements have been made to the J-Trace PRO and Ozone debugger products by SEGGER. The new functionality incorporated will enable continuous trace, endless streaming and live analysis of application trace data for ARM Cortex-M projects.

Version 3.10 of SEGGER's cross platform development software 'Embedded Studio' has been released. The new version comes with multiple improvements, most notably even higher speed and the ability to build programs using compilers other than the included GCC and Clang/LLVM. These other compilers can be integrated seamlessly into Embedded Studio and the resulting programs can be debugged using the built-in debugger.

J-Link support for the BBC micro:bit has been introduced by Segger. It provides students with a path to using a production grade IDE for their next micro:bit project. SEGGER offers the capability to upgrade the firmware on the BBC micro:bit DAPLink to a J-Link OB (On Board). This firmware makes the on-board debug solution on the BBC micro:bit compatible to J-Link, allowing users to take advantage of all J-Link features.

Renesas Electronics Europe and SEGGER have announced their collaboration to facilitate expansion of the ecosystem of Renesas’ RX family of 32-bit MCUs through adoption of SEGGER’s newly-released SystemView software. The SystemView software will now support streaming over J-Link, as well as real-time analysis and visualisation, in relation to any Renesas RX-based embedded design.

  The emSSH software library has been announced by SEGGER. This highly advanced package is intended for creating secure connections between a client and a server, typically over a TCP/IP connection.

  J-Link support for Zilog’s ZNEO32! Cortex-M3 based family of MCUs has been introduced by SEGGER. This includes support for debug, as well as Flash-based programming. Production line programming is also available via the SEGGER Flasher family.

  A new version of the J-Link firmware for NXP's evaluation boards with OpenSDA debug and programming interface from SEGGER. OpenSDA is used on the popular Tower and Freedom evaluation boards equipped with Kinetis microcontroller devices.

SEGGER introduces the add-on CDC-ECM for its emUSB-Device stack to provide Ethernet connections via USB. Fully compliant with the CDC-ECM class, the new emUSB-Device CDC-ECM is a comprehensive out-of-the-box solution for connecting with Mac and Linux platforms (complementing SEGGER’s existing emUSB-Device RNDIS solution for Windows hosts).

To assist engineers in adding higher degrees of security to their designs, SEGGER has introduced the embOS-MPU - a new variant of the company’s zero interrupt latency real time operating system (RTOS) that is optimised for minimal memory utilisation.

J-Link firmware has been introduced by SEGGER for the embedded ST-LINK on STM32 Nucleo, STM32 Discovery and other microcontroller unit (MCU) evaluation boards from STMicroelectronics. The upgrade turns a board’s ST-LINK interface into a fully functional J-Link, which can then be employed to debug the board's application processor.

The J-Link line of debug probes from Segger is now available on the Atmel Xplained evaluation platform. The Atmel Xplained evaluation kits provide an on-board, single chip debug solution called Atmel EDBG for which SEGGER now has released an upgraded firmware to give the users the capability to convert their Atmel EDBG to a J-Link OB.

Trace probe performance levels have been improved by Segger’s J-Trace PRO, an advanced tracing solution that utilises state-of-the-art J-Link technology, in combination with a Gigabit Ethernet interface, in order to present engineers with an ultra-fast probe for unlimited streaming trace.

SEGGER announces the addition of Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) support to its emUSB-Host stack. Developers can quickly add MTP host functionality to permit the transfer of media files such as audio, images or video with MTP-enabled devices. emUSB-Host's initiator capability enables users to transfer files between devices acting as initiator. It perfectly complements the existing MTP responder capability in emUSB-Device.

SEGGER releases the emPower evaluation board, dedicated to convey a comprehensive and out-of-the-box experience of SEGGER’s complete embedded software offerings and thus accelerating the start of any embedded project. emPower is an affordable platform for customers to enhance software evaluation, prototyping and proof of concept.

Segger has upgraded the emFile file management system for embedded applications by adding a block grouping feature to reduce the amount of RAM needed for block management of NAND flash memory. NAND can now be used for gigabytes of data with smaller MCUs.

SEGGER has announced the development of a new security feature for its production flash programmer line, as well as the Flasher Portable. 'Authorized Flashing' enables users to limit the number of flash programming cycles, thereby preventing the production of unrestricted quantities by third parties in case of external production.

Digital signatures can help to eliminate the threat of product cloning. By Dirk Akemann, SEGGER Microcontroller.

SEGGER has introduced emSSL, a ground-up implementation of secure sockets that are the backbone of secure communications on the Internet today. Written to run effortlessly on single-chip embedded devices, emSSL integrates seamlessly with embOS/IP or, alternatively, any IP stack that supports plain sockets, or any bidirectional communications channel.