emPower
The evaluation board for embedded system development

The emPower evaluation board is a versatile development platform designed to showcase and evaluate the capabilities of SEGGER's software and middleware products, as well as third-party hardware components.

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Overview

emPower is SEGGER's evaluation board and prototyping platform to help developers quickly start prototyping and developing embedded applications. It is the reference design for testing SEGGER’s emPower OS embedded operating system for a wide array of embedded projects.

Key features

The emPower board is a powerful and flexible tool for embedded systems development. Equipped with a powerful microcontroller, it offers high performance with low power consumption.

Comprehensive ecosystem

The emPower board comes with extensive software support using the complete operating system emPower OS. It also includes J-Link debug technology, allowing for high-speed debugging and trace capabilities. This accelerates development time and enhances debugging efficiency.

Rich peripheral interface

The emPower board features a variety of interfaces and connectivity options, such as GPIOs, UART, SPI, I2C, USB, Ethernet, and more. This extensive peripheral support allows developers to easily connect and interface with other hardware components, sensors, and communication modules.

Drag & Drop Programming

The Drag & Drop Programming feature is an optional add-on of the J-Link OB that allows intuitive programming of the target MCU. SEGGER offers an example implementation for the emPower board that demonstrates how easily the microcontroller on the emPower board can be programmed.

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Technical specifications

The emPower evaluation board is built around the Cortex-M4-based NXP Kinetis K66 and equipped with the J-Link OB on-board debug probe. It has a 1.8" LCD display module (resolution 160x128) and a joystick (4(+1)-way, 1x "FIRE" button, 1x RESET button). The emPower board is powered solely by USB.

Dimensions: 99 mm x 80 mm
LEDs: 4x bicolor
Ethernet: 100 Mbit/s
USB device: High speed, B-type connector
USB host: Full speed, providing USB supply to device, A type receptacle (for directly plugging in A type devices/modules)
3 expansion interfaces providing I2C, SPI buses, UART, CAN, GPIO/timer, analog input, power, compatible with 3.3V SExI modules
External debug interface: 19-pin Cortex-M (incl. trace)
Pin headers for unused MCU signals
Display adapter connector: 5 V/3.3 V, SPI, PWM for backlight control
MicroSD card connector
Rotary input (potentiometer to ADC)

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Purchase information

The emPower evaluation board is available via the SEGGER web shop. It comes with a SEGGER evaluation software package to ensure a smooth, ready-to-run testing of the emPower OS embedded operating system. The various components and the supported features are detailed in the table below.

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Software

The emPower board comes with a pre-configured emPower OS Package that is available under SEGGER's Friendly License (SFL) for evaluation purposes and non-commercial use. It provides full functionality with no technical limitations. It contains all the components of emPower OS that can be used on the evaluation board, including applicable driver packages, pre-built for the setup.

Product	Supported features
embOS	Core + Profiling
emCompress	emCompress-Embed, emCompress-ToGo
emCrypt	PRO
emFile	BASE + Encryption, FAT, FAT LFN, Journaling, Storage Layer, RAMDisk, SD/SDHC/SDXC/MMC, NAND
emModbus	Master + Slave
emNet	BASE + CoAP Server / Client, DHCP Server, (m)DNS/LLMNR/DNS-SD Server, FTP Client, FTP Server, MQTT Client, NetBIOS Name Service, SMTP Client, SNMP Agent, SNTP Client, UPnP, WebSocket, emNet driver for Freescale Kinetis K60/K70
emSecure	emSecure-RSA, emSecure-ECDSA
emSSH	Secure Shell software library, Secure Copy
emSSL	Secure Sockets Layer
emUSB-Device	BASE + Audio, Bulk, CDC, DFU, HID, IP-over-USB component, MIDI, MSD, MSD-CDROM, MTP, Printer Class, VirtualMSD, Video, Target Driver for Freescale Kinetis K60/K70 HighSpeed (EHCI)
emUSB-Host	BASE + Bulk, CDC, FTDI UART, HID, MIDI, MSD, MTP, Printer Class, Freescale Kinetis FullSpeed Driver
emWeb	Web Server
emWin	BASE + AntiAliasing, Bitmap Converter, Font Converter, Memory Devices, Simulation, VNC Server, Widgets, Window Manager, GUIDRV_FlexColor
IoT Toolkit	HTTP Client, JSON Parser

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Add-on module

emPower RS232 add-on module

The emPower RS232 add-on module is equipped with a female DSUB9 connector so that the add-on board can be connected to a PC (or a USB to serial adapter) directly or by using a 1:1 male / female cable (this module is a peripheral). It can be plugged to one of the three expansion interfaces (J500/ExpIF0, J501/ExpIF1, J502/ExpIF2) of the emPower board.

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SEGGER - emPower RS232 — emPower RS232 add-on module

Product photo of SEGGER emPower board with RS232 add-on module — SEGGER emPower board with plugged RS232 add-on module

Getting started

The emPower evaluation software includes several starter projects that are available for testing the components of emPower OS as well as other SEGGER software such as SystemView and Embedded Studio, enabling it to be used as a reference design for testing. A detailed step-by-step tutorial helps get the evaluation software package up and running.