IAR Systems announced updates of its IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm. The update includes complete coverage for the ultra-low-power Renesas RE microcontroller (MCU) Family.

A simple definition of a secure boot is that it's a mechanism for ensuring the integrity of firmware and software running on a computing platform.

However, there's a downside to this tsunami of IoT connected devices, which, as ResearchAndMarkets notes, will hit 25.1 billion in 2025, compared to 2017's 7.5 billion.

Secure contexts are a must in industrial platforms, especially if it's a "connected" platform.

You've spent months or even years creating IP that belongs to your company and/or its customers. In many cases, that IP is what makes you stand out from your competitors.

According to industry analysts, we could see one trillion IoT connections by the year 2035, with the transfer of more than 2 Zbytes of data just from consumer devices alone.

IAR Systems released new versions of its C-Trust security development tool and its Security from Inception Suite.