Uppsala, Sweden. IAR Systems is offering embedded designers a free and complete case study on, The 12 Fundamentals of Embedded Software Development. The e-book takes an open look at the challenges embedded developers face and facilitates them on a journey to learn how to utilize the 12 Fundamentals in their solutions. The fundamentals will help reduce cost through code implementation.

Uppsala and Gothenburg, Sweden. IAR Systems and Gaisler are partnering on an IAR Embedded Workbench for RISC-V (IAR I-jet), a comprehensive development toolchain assisting engineers with an abundance of resources tied into one simplistic development platform. The workbench includes many debugging and assessment protocols for code and data breakpoints, as well as runtime stack analysis, call stack visualization, and code coverage analysis. The IAR I-jet is an economical debug interface with the Noel-V processor from Gaisler.

Uppsala, Sweden – IAR Systems announced extended support for the company’s Visual Studio Code, encompassing the latest IAR Build and IAR C-SPY Visual Studio (VS) Code Extensions v1.20, and compatible with the most recent IAR Embedded Workbench.

Uppsala, Sweden. IAR Systems revealed its complete support for the recent availability of IAR Embedded Workbench meant for RISC-V for the CoDense expansion of Andes Technology’s AndeStar V5 RISC-V processor. The CoDense in AndeStar V5 is intended for the compression of code with standard RISC-V instructions. CoDense in AndeStar V5 is an Andes-extended feature for code size compression on top of the RISC-V standard instructions.

Uppsala, Sweden –IAR Systems® announced continued support for SiFive’s RISC-V Automotive CPU IP: The IAR Embedded Workbench™ for RISC-V which is aimed at the most recent SiFive Automotive E6-A and S7-A product series and addresses automotive application needs such as infotainment, connectivity, and ADAS, while also incorporating the single instruction set architecture (ISA) utilized by RISC-V to increase code portability and reduce cost and time-to-market.

Do more with less – this phrase, which captures Buckminster Fuller’s concept of ephemeralization, caught fire in the embedded space in the 1990s but never seems to go out-of-fashion. Managers constantly squeeze budgets and schedules to deliver products faster and cheaper, often with quality suffering as a result. Unlike Fuller’s vision of ever-increasing quality and solutions, this approach often results in the test phase of the product lifecycle being foreshortened to meet aggressive schedule goals and occasionally means cutting features from the final product (perhaps to be added later as a version update). 

Let’s explore techniques that will help developers find and fix defects more quickly, help save money on build material lists (BML), and perhaps avoid the challenges of ephemeralization. While the primary focus is on Arm-based cores, many of these techniques are directly applicable to other cores as similar functionality exists in many embedded devices.

IAR Systems announced the latest version of the complete development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for Arm v. 9.30, which fully supports the Renesas’ RZ/T2 and RZ/N2 series MPUs, based on Arm® Cortex®-R52.