SEGGER SystemView free for select ultra-low power MCUs from Analog Devices

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SEGGER has announced that Analog Devices (ADI) has made SEGGER’s SystemView software analysis tool available to their customers for select Ultra Low Power (ULP) microcontrollers, free of charge.

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Included are the MAX78000, MAX78002, MAX32561, MAX32570, MAX32655, MAX32672, MAX32675, MAX32680, and MAX32690 devices.

SystemView is a real-time recording and visualization tool for embedded systems that reveals the true runtime behaviour of an application and can go far deeper than the system insights provided by debuggers. This is particularly effective when developing and working with complex embedded systems comprising multiple threads and interrupts.

SystemView can ensure a system performs as designed, track down inefficiencies, and find unintended interactions and resource conflicts.

ADI’s ULP microcontrollers enable edge nodes to process local data intelligently while minimising power consumption. This extends battery life and reduces the frequency of charging, offering prolonged usage periods.

In addition, ADI’s ULP Artificial Intelligence (AI) microcontrollers with a built-in neural network hardware accelerator perform AI inferences hundreds of times faster and uses less energy than many other embedded solutions.

According to Jason Griffin, Managing Director, Software and Security Group at ADI, “By providing our customers access to SystemView, we are delivering on our promise of making their development lives easier by helping them reveal the intricate runtime behaviour of embedded systems."

Commenting Dirk Akemann, Head of Technical Marketing at SEGGER, added, “With streaming data transfer via debug interface and real time data analysis, J-Link and SystemView together provide a clear advantage for development as well as for the verification and optimisation process.”

Especially helpful when working with sophisticated MCUs is SystemView’s new DataPlot window. It enables users to record and visualize custom data samples over time, alongside runtime information events.

The DataPlot window presents a visualization of the recorded data in oscilloscope-style graphs, which are synchronised with SystemView's Timeline and CPU Load windows, providing a trace of each measurement over time with at-a-glance verification or diagnosis of system response, helping to verify system behaviour or pinpoint events causing unwanted behaviour.

SystemView is available on all platforms (Linux, macOS, and Windows) on Arm, Intel, and Apple Silicon.