We recently licensed our Floating point library for RISC-V to a large international corporation. They asked not only for our functional verification suite, but also for a verification of the verification suite. A code coverage report showing that the entire code had been executed. While we know that all lines and every instruction have been […]
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Floating-point face off, part 3: How we do it
This posting continues to explore the performance of floating point and how microcontrollers can efficiently execute basic floating-point operations.
Floating-point face-off, part 2: Comparing performance
I used to think that floating-point was not for Embedded Systems. Too slow, too much code overhead and rounding is always a problem. It turns out that while scaled integers still have a performance benefit, floating-point computations can be done with a surprisingly high performance these days on modern Embedded CPUs. This is true not […]
Finding the right (Q)SPI Flash for your project
Not all SPI Flashes are created equal SPI Flashes have become very popular as an inexpensive way to add nonvolatile storage (flash memory) to an Embedded System. They come in various capacities, so increasing memory is fast and easy. Any microcontroller can interface to them via SPI or QSPI peripheral interfaces, or simple general purpose […]
Floating-point face-off
What makes a great runtime library different from a run-of-the-mill runtime library? This article will answer some of those questions with hard data and technical insights.
J-Run: Automating performance tests on real hardware
One of the things that irritates me a lot is manual work that should be automated by machines. Automation always trumps the error-prone human and, in my case, offered the opportunity to get to use some of SEGGER”s software I’d never used before to develop a useful tool.
Current state of the trace market
When talking about tracing, you will mostly hear about the approach on the software side on how the trace data gets analyzed and all the associated benefits. But what about the hardware and any possible limitations? The different trace types Generally speaking, trace is an advanced debugging technique that offers the user a link between […]
The SEGGER linker and SOMNIUM assets
Startups come and go, some make it, some don’t. The embedded tools market is especially tough even for those that know it well, and being able to innovate and be successful needs true insight. To cut to the chase, SEGGER have acquired all intellectual property assets of SOMNIUM Technologies.
Killer features of the SEGGER linker, or what’s wrong with the GNU linker?
In the previous post, Rolf described some of the progress that we have made on the brand-new SEGGER linker. In this post I examine the gnarly problems with the GNU linker and how they are easily solved by the SEGGER linker. A follow-up post will examine more of the linker’s capabilities.
The SEGGER Linker – Replacing the GNU linker
At SEGGER, we pretty much use our own tools and products to develop our products. That includes using our middleware, such as embOS, emNet, emUSB, emFile, web and FTP Servers and so on, as part of the firmware of our J-Link, J-Trace and Flasher products. And the other way round, utilizing the same hardware products, most […]