ignum Systems™, an IAR Systems company, designs, and develops software and hardware development tools for the embedded market worldwide. The company was founded in 1979.  Early on, we found ourselves squarely in the mainstream of the full-featured in-circuit emulator (ICEs) market, serving  major  of hard disk drive manufacturers and microprocessor makers. The best-selling of our products introduced in the last decade include affordable JTAG emulators for a large variety of the ARM, DSP and ARM-DSP hybrid microprocessors; processors, debuggers, software tools, and third-party compilers; flash memory programmers that run off the JTAGjet emulators; ARM remote debug interfaces and smart card test tools; smart card emulators, analyzers, and verification tools.

Signum's state-of-the-art, user-friendly emulators are conceived, developed and manufactured entirely in the U.S.A. by the company's expert engineering and production teams. Signum prides itself on its engineering-driven, rather than market-driven, character.

This customer focus has resulted in extremely reliable and usable ICEs as well as equally dependable free customer support. For yeas, our products and services have been turning even the most skeptical clients into trusting friends and faithful customers.

Signum's three decades of broad experience in embedded applications, ICE design and software and hardware development, coupled with continued substantial R&D efforts, assure the firm's prominent position among the producers of tools for the embedded development market.

In September 2011, Signum was acquired by IAR Systems AB, the world’s leading provider of software for programming of embedded systems. With this transition, our commitment to stay at the forefront of today's fast-paced embedded technology gained a formidable supporter. We believe that our product offering amply reflects this.