Embedded Studio
The all-in-one IDE
Embedded Studio is the all-in-one solution for managing, building, testing, and deploying embedded applications. It ensures smooth and efficient development, and it offers a wide range of features.
1. Overview
2. Key Features
3. Use Cases
4. How Embedded Studio Works
5. Tool Set
6. SEGGER Toolchain
7. System Requirements
8. Licensing
Overview
SEGGER's Embedded Studio is a comprehensive integrated development environment (IDE) designed specifically for managing, building, testing, and deploying embedded applications. This means smooth, efficient development operations thanks to a wide range of features. Tailored to meet the needs of developers working with a variety of microcontrollers, Embedded Studio streamlines the entire development process, reducing time-to-market and ensuring reliable, robust performance.
Key features
Embedded Studio provides a comprehensive set of tools, including an editor, compiler, debugger, and simulator - all in a single application. Embedded Studio PRO introduces a wide range of libraries and example projects, allowing users to quickly implement common functionalities and accelerate development.
The ability to integrate critical elements streamlines the development process by eliminating the need to switch between multiple tools. With its Visual Studio-like interface, Embedded Studio also offers user-friendliness that enhances developer productivity.
Built-in Toolchains
Smallest Executable Code
Multi-Architecture Support
Embedded Studio comes with two toolchains: SEGGER and GCC, both of which are ready-to-run. External toolchains like LLVM, IAR, or the ARM/KEIL compiler can also be used. All toolchains under one proverbial roof means maximum flexibility.
Embedded Studio is designed to reduce code size and improve execution speed, providing developers with code that is optimized for embedded applications. This paves the way for easy creation of fast programs with minimal memory requirements.
Embedded Studio is compatible with a wide range of microcontrollers, including ARM, RISC-V, and other popular platforms. As a result, developers can use a single IDE across different projects, making porting and development very easy.
Use Cases
Embedded Studio aids the development of efficient firmware for embedded systems, particularly in resource-constrained environments. This applies to applications critical to performance, for which software must be carefully developed and optimized to ensure functionality, reliability, and efficiency with limited available resources - as is often the case for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, wearables, and medical devices.
Firmware Creation for Heterogeneous Multi-Processor Architectures
Firmware Development for MCUs with Constrained Resources
Flexible Software Development with Multi-Platform Support
When creating applications for mixed-target architectures, Embedded Studio and its corresponding toolchain can serve as a developer's single project manager and IDE. It enables the creation of multiple projects within a single solution that includes all code.
With its efficient compiler and integrated runtime library, Embedded Studio produces highly optimized code. This is particularly useful when developing firmware for real-time applications, medical devices, or IoT devices for which a constrained microcontroller's limited memory and processing power must be utilized effectively.
Embedded Studio can be used on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS, as is often required in multi-disciplinary or international teams, where developers with different preferences, experiences, and needs work collaboratively. This ensures maximum flexibility and efficiency.
How Embedded Studio Works
Embedded Studio is a software application for use throughout the entire software development cycle. It guides and simplifies the development process with features like syntax highlighting, code completion, and real-time error checking. With Embedded Studio's integrated and advanced debugging features, users can easily identify and fix bugs by setting breakpoints, stepping through code, inspecting variables, and evaluating expressions.
Tool Set
Package Manager
Project Manager
Code Editor
Code Analyzers
Embedded Studio simplifies software management by enabling users to seamlessly download, update, and integrate libraries, tools, and board-support packages directly into their respective projects.
Embedded Studio allows streamlining of project organization and development via management of files, build configurations, and dependencies.
The code editor enhances development efficiency with features like syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, and integrated diagnostics for seamless coding.
Embedded Studio includes tools that allow memory analysis, static stack analysis, static code analysis, and trace and profile execution.
Runtime Library
Graphical Debugger
RTOS Awareness
Simulator
Embedded Studio includes the complete emRun C runtime library as well as the emRun++ C++ standard library, both of which are specifically designed and optimized for embedded applications.
Embedded Studio provides an intuitive interface for debugging, with advanced visualization of application behavior, real-time insights, and seamless integration with J-Link.
The RTOS awareness plug-in for Embedded Studio enables the visualization of task activity and stack use during debugging sessions.
Embedded Studio contains a full instruction-set simulator (emSim) for supported architectures. It is ideal for familiarizing oneself with new architectures, writing and testing application programs with no hardware present, and utilizing automated testing.
SEGGER Toolchain
In software development, a toolchain is critical - especially in embedded systems. A compiler translates source code into machine code, a linker combines different code modules into a single executable, and a C++ library provides all of the features that make object-oriented programming fast and easy.
Together, these tools simplify the development process by ensuring efficient and optimized code. A well-integrated toolchain reduces errors, simplifies debugging, and enhances performance - making it a key asset for building reliable, high-quality applications in resource-constrainted environments.
Generation of optimized C/C++ code for embedded systems
Simplified linking and optimized application size
An optimized C++ library for modern embedded systems
SEGGER Compiler is a Clang-based C/C++ compiler for Arm microcontrollers that supports the latest C/C++ language features. It generates fast, compact code using all known Thumb instruction sets.
SEGGER Linker speeds up linking, optimizes application size, simplifies memory layout configuration, and addresses common linking issues in ARM and RISC-V based embedded systems.
SEGGER C++ Library is a complete standard library tailored to embedded systems. As C++ becomes increasingly important for embedded applications, the library is continually updated to meet modern C++ standards.
System Requirements
| Supported OS | |
|---|---|
| Windows | Microsoft Windows (x64/Arm) |
| macOS | macOS (x64/Apple Silicon) |
| Linux | Linux (x64/Arm) |
| Development System | |
|---|---|
| CPU | 2GHz |
| Memory | 4GB RAM |
| Disk Space | 2GB |
Licensing
Embedded Studio is available under SEGGER's Commercial Use License (CUL) (single user). This license is portable, meaning it is not limited to a single PC, and it can be stored on a J-Link, acting like a USB dongle. This allows full use of Embedded Studio on any computer.
Other license-related terms are available upon request. All available license editions include a 12-month Support and Update Agreement (SUA), and there is also an option to extend support and updates for an additional year (12 months).
| Embedded Studio PRO Cortex-A/R | Embedded Studio PRO Cortex-M | Embedded Studio ARM | Embedded Studio Cortex-M | Embedded Studio RISC-V | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| emPower OS Libraries | Supported | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Cortex-M | Supported | Supported | Supported | Supported | Not Supported |
| Cortex-R | Supported | Not Supported | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Cortex-A | Supported | Not Supported | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| Legacy Arm | Supported | Not Supported | Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported |
| RISC-V | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported | Not Supported | Supported |