Segger introduces Device Provisioner for target device configuration
Segger announces the Device Provisioner for its Flasher family of in-circuit programmers and its J-Link and J-Trace family of market-leading debug and trace probes.
Modern chips require an increasing level of customer- and device-specific configuration. The driving force is security, especially as more and more devices connect to the Internet. Unfortunately, there is no industry standard for provisioning device security and configuration. Options differ from one silicon vendor to the next, even from device to device, and they keep evolving, making a flexible tool necessary.
The Device Provisioner is a command-line tool that offers the flexibility, enabling users to customise their own device provisioning, including (but not limited to) conditioning, programming (including special areas), downloading of certificates, serial number assignment, locking and unlocking as well as security activation and TrustZone/partitioning configuration. Users can also enable or disable debugging, set fuses, program option bytes and flash, or anything else that the target requires.
The Device Provisioner executes commands from a script written in the C language that can be provided by Segger, the silicon vendor, or written by the users themselves.
The Device Provisioner comes as part of the software package for both the J-Link and Flasher family of products. Script files can be executed on J-Links and Flasher while connected to a host PC, as well as executed by Flasher in stand-alone mode.
Script files can be distributed in source code or in pre-compiled form to protect the IP.
