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ARMmbed/DAPLink

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Health v2 · maintenance only

67/100

  • Activity 98
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4357
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 13
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2793 stars · 1098 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Arm Mbed DAPLink is open-source interface firmware that runs on a secondary MCU attached to the SWD/JTAG port of an Arm Cortex application MCU, bridging the debug computer and target CPU over USB. It provides drag-and-drop flash programming (MSC), a virtual serial port (CDC), and CMSIS-DAPv1/v2 debug channels.

Use cases

  • flash firmware onto arm cortex microcontrollers by drag and drop
  • debug cortex-m mcu over swd with cmsis-dap
  • build custom debug probe firmware for a development board
  • get a virtual serial port terminal on an embedded dev board
  • update interface firmware on opensda or lpc-link2 debuggers

When to choose

  • you need CMSIS-DAP compliant debug firmware for an Arm Cortex target
  • you want drag-and-drop MSC flashing plus serial and debug over one USB device
  • you are building or customizing a debug probe on supported HIC hardware like MCU-LINK, OpenSDA, or LPC-Link2

When to avoid

  • you need a debugger for non-Arm architectures like RISC-V or AVR
  • you want a host-side debugging tool rather than probe firmware (use pyOCD or OpenOCD instead)
  • your debug probe hardware is not among the supported interface circuits

Facets

application · maturity active

embedded developer-tools security embedded-systems hardware developer-tools embedded windows cross-platform debug-probe cmsis-dap interface-firmware swd jtag flash-programming arm-cortex usb-composite macos linux

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Member repositories

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