Imagine you’re just stepping into the world of embedded systems. Your possibilities as a developer are endless—from creating smart home devices to powering industrial automation. But with so many tools, technologies, and processes to learn, where do you even begin?
Posts with the Embedded Studio tag
C++ pitfalls – Memory allocation from interrupts
Modern C++ programming very much abstracts what is happening “under the hood” – i.e. what code the CPU is actually executing. This is nice for the programmer … if it works well. Unfortunately, C++ also introduces a stability problem in embedded systems. Many programmers are unaware of this problem. This post gives some background, explains […]
C++ real-time allocation — a chess engine
This article describes a new capability that I added to SEGGER emRun, now available in Embedded Studio 6, to support real-time dynamic storage allocation. These enhancements were inspired during my development of a chess engine, and I’ll describe some of the engine design and why emRun now offers a new allocator.
SEGGER’s Embedded Studio Achieves Top Rating in German Elektronik Magazine
In 2020, one of Germany’s leading B2B electronics magazines, Elektronik, conducted a reader test with SEGGER’s development environment Embedded Studio. This kind of test lets readers apply to receive the product free of charge, to test it according to a previously defined set of criteria and give their feedback and a rating. The products’ manufacturers […]
SEGGER Embedded Studio on Apple M1 and Intel i7
In 2016, we started releasing 64-bit builds of Embedded Studio for Windows. This improved the build performance by about 20% compared to the 32-bit version. Apple recently released the M1, which uses the AArch64/ARMv8-A instruction set. How does Embedded Studio perform on the new chip? We did the comparison again.
Comparing Performance on Windows, Linux and OS X
Last week, I compared the speed of the 64-bit and the 32-bit build of Embedded Studio and the GCC compiler. The 64-bit version was the clear winner, with a performance gain of about 5 – 20 %. But what can we get from working with different operating systems? At SEGGER, we developers are free to select […]
Embedded Studio for Windows: 64-bits vs. 32-bits
SEGGER Embedded Studio is available for all major operating systems, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. For Linux, a 64-bit build has been available for some time and as of now, a 64-bit executable is also available for Windows. Why should I use a 64-bit executable?
