13.12.2011

Atollic Bundles SEGGER J-Link JTAG Probe with TrueSTUDIO Embedded Development IDE

Atollic, available from Glyn High-Tech Distribution, announced recently the launch of a complete embedded development package comprising its award-winning Atollic TrueSTUDIO® C/C++ development tool, and the J-Link JTAG debug probe from SEGGER Microcontroller.

With this package, embedded C/C++ developers get a state-of-the-art tool chain for professional ARM® development, and a high-quality JTAG probe for the most demanding of debugging tasks.

“With the bundling of J-Link, the most feature-rich development tool for ARM devices gets even more complete”, says Magnus Unemyr, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Atollic. “We have deeply integrated J-Link into TrueSTUDIO and now offer embedded developers a one-stop-shop for professional development solutions”.

The J-Link debug probe integrates seamlessly into the Atollic TrueSTUDIO development environment, and provides a true “one-click” debug solution, simplifying daily use. The Atollic TrueSTUDIO project wizard auto-generates suitable debug configurations for J-Link and all supported evaluation boards. This provides developers with a comprehensive development and debug environment that works straight from the box.

"Atollic offers an excellent Eclipse-based development tool chain in TrueSTUDIO. With TrueINSPECTOR, TrueVERIFIER and TrueANALYZER the tool chain is complemented by powerful test coverage solutions. Bundling TrueSTUDIO with the market-leading J-Link is the logical next step after improving the advanced J-Link integration in all their tools, from debugger to code-analyser," says Dirk Akemann, Partnership Marketing Manager at SEGGER.

SEGGER J-Link is a USB powered JTAG emulator for ARM devices, supporting the Serial Wire Debug (SWD) interface and Serial Wire Viewer (SWV) real-time tracing.

J-Link is fully plug-and-play compatible, using a high-speed USB 2.0 interface. No extra power supply is required, as the debug probe is powered through the USB cable.

Advanced features, like Serial Wire Viewer (SWV), enable developers to do advanced system analysis and real-time tracing in the Atollic TrueSTUDIO debugger with a minimum of effort. Atollic TrueSTUDIO extracts tracing information from ARM Cortex® processors using the J-Link debug probe and presents it in real-time trace logs and graphical charts.

Atollic TrueSTUDIO was recently announced one of EDN magazine’s “Hot 100 products of 2011”. It supports most ARM-based devices and evaluation boards from leading semiconductor manufacturers. With its optimizing C/C++ compiler and multiprocessor-aware debugger embedded developers can work more efficiently and  be more productive. State-of-the-art features for code editing and navigation, code complexity management, and team collaboration are included too.

Q: What is the advantage of J-Link versus simple probes such as FTDI based systems?

A: J-Link has numerous advantages. One of the biggest advantages is the J-Link software supplied by SEGGER, which allows using it with common IDEs, the availability of flash breakpoints for people debugging software which runs in the flash of microcontrollers, as well as the high speed of the J-Link and the simple and very fast download into flash memory.
In contrast to most of the simple probes, it supports adaptive clocking as well as SWD and SWO. It also works more stable since it is not just a dump USB to JTAG converter, but uses the intelligence of the built-in CPU, providing a more robust communication, especially in situations where the target CPU runs at low clock speeds.

For more details, please send email to sales@glyn.com.au