"We have seen increasing demand from customers for hardware which permits them to explore our software’s full potential", says Alex Gruener, Chief Technology Officer at SEGGER. "With emPower, we now have a powerful platform to demonstrate the broad range of our products."

SEGGER’s embOS real-time operating system is at the heart of the evaluation. Furthermore, evaluation versions of the file system emFile, graphics library emWin, emUSB Host & Device, and TCP/IP stack embOS/IP (including web server demo) enable full use of the available emPower peripherals.

emPower also features a J-Link OB, an on-board version of SEGGER’s market-leading debug probe J-Link, which includes drag & drop programming and COM-Port support. There are three expansion interfaces to easily connect additional modules. Each connector provides I2C, SPI, UART, GPIO/timer, analog input and power. A display adapter connector enables the connection of small TFT displays.

The emPower board is based on a Freescale Kinetis K66 MCU with 256KB SRAM and 2MB flash memory. This MCU is built on the ARM Cortex-M4F core and is optimized for applications requiring large memory densities and low-power processing efficiency. "We are pleased to be a part of this new development platform with our Kinetis K66 MCU and see the integration of SEGGER tools as a great step forward in seamless prototyping," says Michael Norman, Microcontroller Software and Tools Technical Marketing Manager at Freescale.

Non-volatile storage capability of the board is provided by means of a 1Gbit SLC NAND Flash from Macronix, a leading integrated device manufacturer in the non-volatile memory (NVM) market. The NAND flash has a built-in ECC controller in order to be ECC-free to the MCU. "We are delighted to be part of such a high-grade project. With SEGGER and us both putting an emphasis on top-quality products, I think we are a perfect match," says Nicolas Dennilauler, European Marketing Manager at Macronix.

For more information on how this new SEGGER evaluation board can empower every embedded project, please visit www.segger.com/empower.html.