This week, Segger Microcontroller announced that the IAR Branded J-Link emulators will be discontinued. It will continue to provide J-Link support from the IAR Embedded Workbench.

This follows IAR's decision to acquire Signum, which effectively gave it the option to sell one of two competing products: Their Signum emulator or the IAR branded version of the Segger J-Link.

“This acquisition took us by surprise. We regret that we have to do this, but we feel forced to discontinue production of IAR branded yellow J-Links," said Rolf Segger, founder and CTO at Segger.

"We hope that IAR understands the decision and expect that they will continue to fully support the broad base of J-Link users with the Embedded Workbench," said Segger.

J-Link is the a commonly used ARM debug emulator, supported by all major tool chains for ARM cores. The Segger J-Link is independent and will work with IDEs from: Freescale, IAR, KEIL, Mentor Graphics, Rowley, Renesas, Tasking, Phyton and others.

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