Schwabhausen-based iSYSTEM AG and SEGGER Microcontroller GmbH & Co.KG, located in Hilden, today present a new version of iSYSTEM-s development and test environment winIDEA called winIDEA Open[2] with full support of the SEGGER J-Link[1] debug probe. With their cooperation, iSYSTEM and SEGGER respond to the strong growth of the Cortex microcontroller market, offering customers a simple and cost-efficient entry in the Cortex embedded world. This is accomplished with the free version winIDEA Open and the integrated J-Link support. A GNU compiler for Cortex-M is also supplied. Extensive support as well as compliance with further compilers is available through an upgrade to a regular winIDEA version; the upgrade price is 1,000.- EUR net. „The integration of SEGGER J-Link debuggers in winIDEA is part of iSYSTEM-s Cortex initiative 2013. The strategy „iSYSTEM Goes Software“ emphasizes our company-s ambition to follow this path even more intensely in future. As a result, we expect our development and test environment winIDEA/testIDEA, which is particularly popular in the automotive industry at this time, to become even more popular around the world,“ says iSYSTEM CEO Erol Simsek. „J-Link is a tool that allows development engineers to substantially reduce turn-around times in the software development process, for example, by ultra-fast flash downloads. With the cooperation of iSYSTEM and SEGGER, developers are offered a complete package comprised of a development environment and debug probe that even supports an unlimited amount of breakpoints in the microcontroller flash memory,“ explains Rolf Segger, CTO and founder of SEGGER Microcontroller GmbH & Co.KG. The companies plan to extend the integration of these tools over the next months and launch another license variant of winIDEA for SEGGER-s J-Link that will also support the Cortex A and R derivatives besides Cortex M. [1] http://www.segger.com/development-tools.html [2] http://www.isystem.com/downloads/winidea/winideaopen About SEGGER SEGGER Microcontroller develops and distributes hardware and software development tools as well as software components for embedded systems. An „embedded system“ is one in which a microprocessor and associated components are incorporated into a device helping to accomplish difficult and complex tasks in products such as cell phones, medical SEGGER Microcontroller – Solutions for embedded systems instruments, instrument clusters, measurement instruments, satellite radios, digital cameras etc. SEGGER was founded in 1997, is privately held, and is growing steadily. Based in Hilden with distributors in all continents and a local office in Massachusetts, SEGGER offers its full product range worldwide. SEGGER software products include: embOS (RTOS), emWin (GUI), emFile (File System), emUSB (USB host and device stack) and embOS/IP (TCP/IP stack). With the experience in programming efficiently on embedded systems, SEGGER created highly integrated, cost-effective programming and development tools, such as the Flasher (stand-alone flash programmer) and the industry leading J-Link/J-Trace emulator. SEGGER-s intention is to cut software development time for embedded applications by offering affordable, high quality, flexible and easy-to-use tools and software components allowing developers to focus on their applications. Find out more at http://www.segger.com.
iSYSTEM specializes in embedded development and test tools provides debugger and analyzer solutions for more than 50 CPU architectures and their derivatives (3000+ microcontrollers). The Windows and/or Eclipse based development environment (winIDEA) is easy to learn and use. The flexible integration and application of iSYSTEM solutions within the entire development process is enabled by open and public interfaces (APIs). iSYSTEM-s new fully software configurable iC5000 platform adapts to a multifunctional analyzer, development and test tool for many different processors and controllers. An optional I/O module adds the capability to generate, monitor and trace digital as well as analog signals. Additionally, iC5000 can measure the power and current consumption on target level. Testing in general and especially according to functional safety standards is gaining more and more importance in the embedded world. iSYSTEM provides a real-time test tool (testIDEA) integrated in iSYSTEM-s development environment winIDEA that allows execution of testcases without code instrumentation! iSYSTEM-s development and test process is transparent to customers. In addition they have access to iSYSTEM-s regression test tool suite. This enables users to validate iSYSTEM tools operate properly in the context of a safety project as required by a standard and any additional requirements of the users project (Tool Qualification).
