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„Success is going from one failure to another without losing your enthusiasm." (Winston Churchill)
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 Newsletter in September 2026
- A new Carnica Technology Website - built around your Embedded Projekt
- Your Embedded Development Lifecycle
- Develop - Debug - Verify
- Beyond Traditional Verification: Continuous Observability
- Test - Produce
- Professional Tools are only Part of the Solution
- Not sure where to start?
- Take a look around
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Embedded development has changed considerably over the years.
Systems have become more powerful and more complex. Software has taken on an increasingly important role, development cycles have become shorter, and the requirements for reliability, security and quality continue to grow.
At the same time, the tools and technologies available to embedded development teams have evolved enormously.
Our portfolio has evolved with them. And now our website has evolved too.
A new Carnica Technology Website -
built around your Embedded Project
Over the past months, we have completely redesigned and restructured the Carnica Technology website.
Our goal was not simply to give it a new look. We wanted to make it easier for you to find the technologies, tools and expertise you need for your embedded project — not primarily by product or manufacturer, but by what you want to achieve.
Whether you are starting a new development, debugging a complex target system, analysing its real-time behaviour, automating software tests or preparing devices for production, the new website provides a clear place to start.
And, of course, if you already know exactly which product you are looking for, you can still get there directly.
Welcome to the new Carnica Technology website.
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Your Embedded Development Lifecycle
An embedded product does not emerge from a single development step.
Software has to be created, debugged and verified. Its behaviour needs to be understood under real-world conditions. Quality has to be demonstrated through systematic testing. And eventually, the finished software has to be programmed reliably into production devices.
We have therefore organised the main solution areas of our new website around six activities:
DEVELOP - DEBUG - VERIFY - OBSERVE - TEST - PRODUCE
These are not intended to represent a rigid development model. Every organisation has its own processes, and individual activities naturally overlap.
Instead, they provide six clear entry points into the Carnica Technology portfolio.
Start with the task you want to accomplish, and from there discover the technologies and solutions that can help you accomplish it.
Let's take a closer look.
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DEVELOP - DEBUG - VERIFY
A successful embedded product starts with a solid software foundation. Professional development environments help engineers create and maintain embedded applications efficiently, while an RTOS and proven middleware components can eliminate the need to develop standard functionality from scratch.
Our DEVELOPMENT solutions cover professional development tools, real-time operating systems and ready-to-use software components for areas such as communication, file systems, graphics and connectivity.
The objective is simple: spend less engineering time reinventing infrastructure and more time developing the functionality that makes your product different. 🟡 DEBUG
Sooner or later, every development reaches the point where the software does not behave quite as expected.
Finding the reason quickly requires reliable access to the target system and tools that allow developers to investigate what is actually happening inside it.
Professional debug and trace probes provide this connection between development environment and target hardware. They support efficient programming and debugging and help developers identify problems without unnecessarily disrupting the system under investigation.
From everyday debugging to demanding embedded applications, the right tools can considerably shorten the journey from “something is wrong” to “now I know why.” 🟢 VERIFY
Traditional source-level debugging is indispensable — but it cannot always show the complete dynamic behaviour of a real-time system.
Which tasks are executing? When do interrupts occur? How do different activities interact? Are timing relationships behaving as expected?
Runtime visualisation and analysis tools such as SEGGER SystemView provide developers with deeper insight into these aspects of an embedded application during development and verification.
This additional perspective can reveal timing problems, unexpected interactions and other behaviour that may be difficult to recognise by stepping through source code alone.
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Beyond Traditional Verification:
🟠 CONTINUOUS OBSERVABILITY
As embedded systems become more complex, connected and software-driven, understanding their behaviour only during individual debugging or verification sessions is increasingly no longer enough.
This is where Continuous Observability starts.
The idea is to maintain insight into the behaviour of embedded software throughout integration, testing and operation — and to feed what we learn from the running system back into the development process.
In other words, Continuous Observability is not simply another step that follows verification.
It forms an overarching feedback loop.
Percepio's observability technologies address different parts of this process.
Tracealyzer provides powerful visual runtime analysis that helps developers understand complex real-time software behaviour in depth.
Detect continuously monitors RTOS-based embedded software for stability risks and captures diagnostic information when relevant problems occur.
DevAlert extends observability beyond the development laboratory by bringing diagnostic information from remote testing and deployed devices back to the development organisation.
Together, these technologies can extend visibility from development and integration through testing and into operation.
The result is a continuous flow of information: observe what the system is actually doing, identify problems and changes earlier, learn from them — and use those insights to improve the product.
Observe → Detect → Understand → Improve → Repeat
That is why Continuous Observability should not be viewed as an isolated activity within the Embedded Development Lifecycle, but as an overarching process that can accompany and connect several development activities.
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TEST - PRODUCE
Finding a defect during debugging is one thing. Demonstrating systematically that software behaves as required is another.
Reliable embedded software requires repeatable and reproducible testing — particularly when products are developed for safety-related applications or according to defined software development standards.
Automated testing solutions such as Razorcat TESSY help development teams create, execute and manage software tests, perform unit and integration testing, measure code coverage and document test results.
Automation makes it possible to repeat tests whenever software changes and helps turn testing from an occasional activity into an integral part of the development process.
The result is not merely more testing, but greater confidence in the software being delivered. 🟣 PRODUCE At some point, development is complete and the product has to leave the laboratory.
The software that developers have created, debugged, analysed and tested must now be programmed reliably into real devices — often hundreds, thousands or many more of them.
Production programming therefore has different requirements from development programming. Speed, repeatability, automation and process reliability become increasingly important.
Professional production programmers provide the bridge from the development environment to series manufacturing and help ensure that the correct software reaches every device efficiently and reliably.
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Professional Tools are only Part of the Solution
A development tool can be excellent and still not be the right tool for a particular project.
Target architecture, operating system, development environment, existing toolchain, technical requirements, development processes and commercial considerations all influence the decision.
And increasingly, individual tools cannot be considered in isolation.
Carnica Technology therefore works with a deliberately focused group of specialised technology partners.
SEGGER provides a broad ecosystem for embedded development, including development tools, an RTOS, middleware, debug and trace probes, runtime analysis and production programmers.
PERCEPIO brings deep runtime insight and Continuous Observability to embedded and real-time software through Tracealyzer, Detect and DevAlert.
RAZORCAT provides professional automated software testing with TESSY.
The technologies of these companies address different challenges and activities within an embedded project — and in many cases complement each other.
This is where we see our role.
We do not simply want to tell you what products are available. We want to understand what you are trying to achieve.
Based on your requirements, we can help you evaluate suitable technologies, understand how they fit into your existing development environment and identify a solution that makes sense for your project — technically and commercially.
Because in the end, the objective is not to own more tools. The objective is to solve development problems.
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Not sure where to start?
Perhaps you already know exactly what you need.
You may be looking for a particular J-Link debug probe, a SEGGER software component, Percepio Tracealyzer or a TESSY configuration from Razorcat. In that case, the new website should help you reach the relevant information quickly.
But perhaps you are starting from the other direction.
You know the problem, but not yet the solution.
You need better insight into the runtime behaviour of an application. You want to automate software testing. You are evaluating an RTOS or middleware. You need to improve production programming. Or you simply want to know which technology would fit your existing development environment.
That is equally good a place to start.
Our new Get Expert Help area brings together the different ways in which we can support you.
You can find software downloads, request product information or a quotation, or simply describe your requirements and ask us.
Sometimes the quickest way to find the right tool is not to search through another hundred product pages.
It is to talk to someone who knows the tools.
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Take a Look around
Many of you receiving this newsletter have been following Carnica Technology for many years.
Some of you have been customers for a long time. Others know us through SEGGER, PERCEPIO or RAZORCAT products, through one of our webinars or events, or simply through this newsletter that has accompanied us month after month.
So I hope you will take a little time to explore the new website.
You will find familiar technologies there, but I also hope you will discover areas of the Carnica Technology portfolio that you may not have associated with us before.
Most importantly, I hope the new structure makes it easier to start with your project and your requirements, rather than having to know in advance which product or manufacturer provides the answer.
A website, of course, is never truly finished. Products evolve, technologies change and new challenges emerge.
The same is true of embedded development.
We will therefore continue to develop the website along with the technologies and solutions we offer.
And if, while looking around, you find something that could be clearer, easier to find or simply better — I would be pleased to hear from you.
After all, the website was built for you.
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Sincerely Yours, Marian A. Wosnitza
„Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The surest way to success is always to try just one more time". (Thomas A. Edison)
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