IAR Systems has announced that it has appointed Matthias Stumpf as Managing Director for Central Europe, with responsibility for all sales, marketing and operational activities in Central Europe. Stumpf’s main role at IAR Systems is to establish a proven key account management and generate broader awareness of the company in Central Europe. He will also work to target the company’s vertical markets in the automotive, industrial automation, te...

Netrino has announced an alliance to incorporate the IAR visualSTATE high-level software design tool as an advanced teaching technology in Netrino’s “Embedded Software Boot Camp” training course. IAR visualSTATE will be utilized by Netrino to teach techniques for efficient high-level and top-down design in high-reliability embedded software systems.

IAR Systems has announced the launch of IAR visualSTATE 6.20, the latest release of its unique high-level design tool featuring code generation, simulation and test, and formal verification. The new release of IAR visualSTATE provides dramatically improved speed and memory efficiency, enabling rapid verification of more complex designs. This makes IAR visualSTATE even more suitable as a design tool for small embedded designs that require high int...

IAR Systems has announced the launch of IAR Embedded Workbench for Atmel AVR32 Version 3.10, the latest version of the world’s only professional tool chain for AVR32 microcontrollers. IAR Embedded Workbench now supports all Atmel AVR32 devices, including the AP7 and UC3 families, and introduces enhanced emulation and trace debugging support, code checking to the MISRA C:2004 standard, multi-file compilation, and the integration of IAR visualSTA...

IAR Systems has announced a complete development kit for STMicroelectronics new microcontroller STM32F103ZE. IAR KickStart Kit includes a development board fitted with the STM32F103ZE microcontroller, a KickStart edition of IAR Embedded Workbenc for ARM, evaluation editions of IAR PowerPac for ARM and IAR visualSTATE, and also includes J-Link for ARM mounted on the board.

IAR Systems has announced the launch of the IAR KickStart Kit for NXP LPC2478, a complete development kit that provides a design platform with a touch screen display for multi-interface communication applications featuring Ethernet and USB device and host. The new development kit is ideal for industrial, medical, point-of-sales and other connected applications, and contains all the necessary hardware and software to allow the developer to design,...

IAR Systems has announced that Micromint, a leading supplier of single-board computers and industrial embedded controllers, has selected IAR Systems as its tools partner for its latest computer board targeted at the industrial market. The new Eagle 100 board commenced shipping in August this year, and each unit includes a KickStart version of IAR Systems flagship C/C++ compiler IAR Embedded Workbench. A developer’s kit is available with IAR J-L...

IAR Systems, NXP Semiconductors, and Micrium have announced the launch of a new reference design platform targeted at RTOS-based, ARM-powered embedded systems for industrial applications. The new platform gives software and hardware engineers a fast time to market for systems based on the LPC2468 ARM7 microcontroller from NXP Semiconductors, starting from a proven hardware/software platform with flexible pre-designed modules for a wide range of a...

IAR Systems has announced the launch of IAR PowerPac for MSP430, a fully-featured real-time operating system (RTOS) combined with a high performance file system that is highly optimized for minimum memory consumption in both RAM and ROM. IAR PowerPac is tightly integrated with IAR Embedded Workbench, and includes sample projects and board support packages for ultra-low power MSP430 microcontrollers. Both IAR Embedded Workbench and IAR PowerPac fo...

IAR Systems has announced the launch of IAR Embedded Workbench for Freescale S08, a new version of its well-known embedded development tool. The tool also provides comprehensive support for Freescale’s Controller Continuum architecture by supporting the stepwise compatibility and easy migration from 8-bit S08 microcontrollers (MCUs) to 32-bit ColdFire devices.

IAR Systems has announced the launch of Version 5.10 of IAR Embedded Workbench for AVR, which now supports the new AVR XMEGA family of 8-bit microcontrollers from Atmel. This latest release is the result of a close partnership with Atmel during their development of XMEGA, and consolidates the position of IAR Embedded Workbench as the leading high-end C/C++ compiler for AVR.

IAR Systems has announced that IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM® now features full support for the new USB-enabled additions to Luminary Micro's award-winning ARM Cortex-M3-based Stellaris® microcontroller family, also announced today. At the same time Luminary Micro has announced two new evaluation kits, both featuring a free code size limited KickStart Edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.

IAR Systems has announced an agreement with the Wireless Connectivity Group of Freescale Semiconductor to include IAR Systems development tools and debug probe in the next generation of Freescale’s development kits based on the MC1322x IEEE® 802.15.4 Platform-in-Package™ (PiP) IC. Freescale’s BeeKit™ Wireless Connectivity Toolkit, which also is included in the kits, provides direct support for IAR Embedded Workbench, easing the integrat...

IAR Systems has strengthened its support for Microchip Technology’s range of 16-bit PIC24 microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC33F digital signal controllers (DSCs) by adding native hardware level debug support, through the inclusion of the Microchip MPLAB REAL ICE In-Circuit Emulator System within its C-SPY debugger, an integral component of IAR Embedded Workbench.

Express Logic and IAR Systems, have announced that IAR Embedded Workbench now supports Express Logic’s ThreadX RTOS. Developers using ThreadX now can elect to use IAR Embedded Workbench IDE for their ColdFire software development tools.

IAR Systems has announced the launch of IAR KickStart Kit for ColdFire. The starter kit provides everything that a developer needs to begin developing a system on a Freescale ColdFire microcontroller, straight from the box. At the same time IAR Embedded Workbench for ColdFire is being upgraded to Version 1.20.

IAR Systems has announced the launch of IAR visualSTATE version 6.1, which incorporates several major enhancements, including: generation of fully human-readable code; build integration with IAR Embedded Workbench; verification improvements; and logging to test sequence files.

IAR Systems has announced the appointment of Thomas Winkler to the newly created position of Director of European Sales. In this role Winkler will be operationally in charge of the company’s sales offices in Munich, Brussels and Northampton, and will direct the sales force across Europe – with the exception of the Nordic and Baltic regions.

IAR Systems and SCIOPTA Systems have entered into an agreement on a joint solution of RTOS and development tools to address the needs of customers building safety-critical applications, including those that have a need for IEC 61508 certification.

IAR Systems and SEGGER Microcontroller, leading manufacturers of software packages for embedded systems, today announced the availability of ‘Flash Breakpoints’ integrated into IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.