Express Logic, Inc., a worldwide leader in royalty-free real-time operating systems (RTOS), and IAR Systems, a leading provider of software tools for embedded systems, today announced a commercial-grade integration for developers of serious applications. The integration combines Express Logic's ThreadX® RTOS and IAR Embedded Workbench® IDE in a form that is easily used out-of-the box by developers of embedded applications. Both Express Logic an...

IAR Systems today announced they have entered into a 3 year enterprise software licence agreement with Landis+Gyr, the leading provider of integrated energy management solutions tailored to energy company needs. The agreement establishes IAR Systems as the preferred vendor of software development tools, and provides the ability to switch software licenses between all the different MCU architectures available.

IAR Systems has been selected by Rescue Alert, a manufacturer of personal medical alert systems aimed at helping people with medical conditions. Rescue Alert's new product is called the 'MXD Personal Response System'. It comes in the form of a base unit combined with a small transmitter button worn on a wrist band or on a necklace. The MXD device features two way voice communications between the user and the monitoring service, has a transmitter ...

IAR Systems today announced the latest release of its IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM. Highly optimised for code size and increased execution speed, it performs up to 13% better on CoreMark benchmarks for Cortex-M0 compared to the previous version of IAR Embedded Workbench.

IAR Systems, an independent provider of software development tools, today announced its cooperation with low-power MCU provider Energy Micro AS. Energy Micro has chosen IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM® for inclusion in its EFM32 Gecko Development Kit. All code examples for the EFM32 MCU supplied in the kit are based on the IAR Embedded Workbench. In addition, customers will have the opportunity to purchase the Energy Micro kit directly from IAR S...

IAR Systems has been selected by Quake Global, a leading manufacturer of M2M communicators for multiple satellite and terrestrial networks, as the preferred software development environment for the latest QUAKE Satellite Data Modems, Q-Pro and Q4000.

IAR Systems has announced the availability of IAR KickStart kit for NXP LPC1114. This is believed to be the world's first commercial starter kit for ARM Cortex-M0-based microcontrollers.

IAR Systems today announced a global volume license program. With its support for more than 20 different 8-, 16-, and 32-bit MCU architectures, IAR Systems is the world's leading provider of software tools for embedded systems and this new program is tailored to benefit both new and existing customers.

IAR Systems today announced comprehensive support for ARM Cortex-R4(F) processor in version 5.40 of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.

IAR Systems and Ember Corporation have teamed together to deliver a reliable and easy to use ZigBee development and debugging platform for sensing and control applications such as smart metering and home automation. Ember recently launched the EM35x InSight Development Kit. The EM35x Insight Development Kit is built around ARM Cortex-M3 processor technology and comes with the latest version of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM, a completely integ...

IAR Systems has announced availability of IAR Embedded Workbench for Cortex-M. Believed to be one of the world's first integrated development environment designed specifically for ARM Cortex-M0, Cortex-M1, and Cortex-M3 based cores, IAR Embedded Workbench for Cortex-M provides a comprehensive set of tools in a single package. Based on the latest full license edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM 5.40, this limited license edition is competiti...

IAR Systems has announced that IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM and IAR PowerPac for ARM now feature full support for the Atmel ARM Cortex-M3-based SAM3U microcontroller (MCU) family. In close cooperation with Atmel, IAR Systems has added new configuration files, flash loaders and project examples to IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM for Atmel’s new SAM3U Cortex-M3 based microcontroller. The device specific support achieved by these additions makes ...

IAR Systems has announced the immediate availability of support in IAR Embedded Workbench for Atmel’s recently announced picoPower AVR32 UC3L microcontroller family that features a built-in hardware capacitive touch controller.

IAR Systems has announced that IAR Embedded Workbench for ARMand IAR PowerPac for ARM now feature full support for the 4th generation of Texas Instruments award-winning ARM Cortex-M3-based Stellaris microcontroller (MCU) family.

IAR Systems today announced it has signed a contract with leading Japanese semiconductor vendor Renesas Technology Corp. to develop a version of IAR Embedded Workbench for Renesas SH-2A core microcontrollers of the SuperH family.

IAR Systems has signed an agreement with Kitron, one of Scandinavia’s leading companies in the development and manufacturing of electronics systems for medical, defence, marine, communications, and process industries, under which Kitron will become an IAR Systems distributor for Norway. With an experienced team of development engineers, Kitron can undertake assignments ranging from simple development work to complete product packages. Kitron su...

IAR Systems has announced the release of a new, low-cost development kit for the ARM® Cortex-M3 in partnership with Toshiba. Toshiba became the first Japanese semiconductor manufacturer to develop a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 core-based microcontroller unit (MCU) when it released the TMPM330FDFG in late 2008. It leveraged the Cortex-M3 core to create a high-performance, low-power general-purpose MCU device with a large Flash memory, a real time clock,...

IAR Systems will use the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), in San Jose, California, as a stage on which to present its embedded tools for wireless system development. IAR Systems has partnered with microcontroller manufacturers Atmel and Texas Instruments to provide visitors to the show with working examples of how its hardware and software development tools for can be utilized in wireless applications. IAR Embedded Workbench is an independent...

IAR Systems and Atmel announced today the result of their cooperation to enhance the support for Atmel’s entire AT91SAM family of ARM-based Flash microcontrollers and embedded microprocessors in the latest release of IAR Embedded Workbench. The product of intensive collaborative development between the two companies, this powerful toolkit simplifies and accelerates application development for Atmel’s AT91SAM micros.

IAR Systems will make three significant announcements at the Embedded World 2009 Exhibition and Conference, 3rd-5th March 2009, in Nuremberg, Germany. One of the first trace debuggers for ARM Cortex-M3 cores will be demonstrated. The IAR J-Trace tool connects to the PC host running Windows via USB and integrates seamlessly into IAR Embedded Workbench for plug-and-play operation.