Segger Microcontroller, founded in 1992, is a private company involved in the

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s industry. It provides products used to develop and manufacture four categories of embedded systems:

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s (RTOS) and software

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and

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probes,

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(IDE),

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), and in-system programmers (Flasher line of products). The company is headquartered in

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, Germany, with remote offices in

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; and

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, China.

History

Segger Microcontroller was founded in 1992 by Rolf Segger in

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, Germany. The first product was the

(RTOS), now named embOS. It was followed by emWin two years later. Initial products focused on RTOS and

products. However, the company later produced ISP-programming tools (Flasher) and debug probes (J-Link). In 2015, Segger introduced Embedded Studio, their

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IDE for

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s conforming to the

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, though recent versions are also used by

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. All products are developed, maintained and updated in Germany except for Embedded Studio, which is primarily developed by a team of developers in the

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Product categories

Debug and trace probes

J-Link

Segger is most noted for its J-Link family, which supports

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(Joint Test Action Group) and SWD (Serial Wire Debug) debug probes for microcontrollers that have older ARM cores (

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ARM9 ARM9 is a group of 32-bit RISC ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Holdings for microcontroller use. The ARM9 core family consists of ARM9TDMI, ARM940T, ARM9E-S, ARM966E-S, ARM920T, ARM922T, ARM946E-S, ARM9EJ-S, ARM926EJ-S, ARM968E-S, ARM996 ...

ARM11 ARM11 is a group of 32-bit RISC ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Holdings. The ARM11 core family consists of ARM1136J(F)-S, ARM1156T2(F)-S, ARM1176JZ(F)-S, and ARM11MPCore. Since ARM11 cores were released from 2002 to 2005, they are no lon ...

), ARM Cortex-M cores ( M0, M0+, M1, M3, M4, M7, M23, M33, M85), ARM Cortex-R cores ( R4, R5, R8), ARM Cortex-A cores ( A5, A7, A8, A9, A12, A15, A17, A53, A72),

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, Microchip

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, SiLab EFM8,

. It is also repackaged and sold as an OEM item by

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as the mIDASLink,

Atmel Atmel Corporation was a creator and manufacturer of semiconductors before being subsumed by Microchip Technology in 2016. Atmel was founded in 1984. The company focused on embedded systems built around microcontrollers. Its products included micr ...

as the SAM-ICE,

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as the Digi JTAG Link, and

IAR Systems IAR Systems is a Swedish computer software company that offers development tools for embedded systems. IAR Systems was founded in 1983, and is listed on Nasdaq Nordic in Stockholm. IAR is an abbreviation of Ingenjörsfirma Anders Rundgren, which ...

as the J-Link and the J-Link KS. This is the only JTAG emulator that can add Segger's patented flash breakpoint software to a debugger to enable the setting of multiple breakpoints in flash while running on an ARM device which is typically hindered by the limited availability of hardware breakpoints. * Note: Further models are J-Link LITE ARM, J-Link LITE CortexM, J-Link LITE RX, J-Link OB, J-Link OEM. * Note: PLUS, BASE, EDU models are physically the same hardware. There are differences in license and software options, such as GDB Server, Flash Download, Unlimited Flash Breakpoints, J-Flash, RDI, RDDI. * Note: The EDU & EDU Mini models cannot be used for commercial software development, also doesn't have J-Flash, J-Flash SPI, RDI, RDDI features. * Note: Adapters and isolators are available to convert the 20-pin 0.1"/2.54mm male shrouded (box) header to another target board connector.J-Link adapters and isolators; segger.com
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