Functional safety tools for ARM integrate powerful code analysis

The latest version integrates IAR’s C-STAT and C-RUN add-on tools for powerful static and runtime code analysis. In addition, extensive functionality has been added. Support for the ARM Cortex-M7 core is now available, as well as ARM-based devices from major semiconductor vendors including Atmel, Cypress, Freescale, Infineon, NXP, STMicroelectronics, Renesas, Toshiba and Texas Instruments.

IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM has been tested and approved according to the requirements on support tools put forth in IEC 61508, the international umbrella standard for functional safety, as well as ISO 26262, which is used for automotive safety-related systems and EN 50128, the European railway standard. IEC 61508, and standards derived from it, is used within all kinds of industries with requirements on reliability and safety, for example process industries, the oil and gas industry, nuclear power plants, machinery, and railway control systems.

The add-on tool C-STAT for static analysis is now supported. C-STAT features innovative static analysis that can detect defects, bugs, and security vulnerabilities as defined by CERT and the Common Weakness Enumeration, as well as help keeping code compliant to standards like MISRA C:2012/2004 and MISRA C++:2008. Also supported is the add-on tool C-RUN for runtime analysis. C-RUN performs arithmetic checks, advanced bounds checking, heap checking, etc. By using runtime analysis, developers can find potential and real errors at an early stage and minimize the impact on project budgets and deadlines. C-STAT and C-RUN are complete integrated in IAR Embedded Workbench, no integration work is needed, you get started quickly and you get instant feedback on the quality of your code.

In the C-SPY Debugger, support for IAR Systems' I-scope power measurement probe is now available. Also introduced is multicore debugging support for Symmetric Multicore Processing (SMP) and Asymmetric Multicore Processing (AMP).

Developers working with applications based on ARM Cortex-A processors can now make use of NEON vectorisation in IAR Embedded Workbench. With the possibility to automatically vectorise the code, developers are able to achieve faster application response time, improve application battery lifetime and further meet the market demands for low cost and low power.

IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM is a complete development toolchain for creating embedded applications. It includes high-performance compiler and debugger tools incorporated in an easy-to-use IDE.