System development toolkit enhances MCU & MPU range

Aiming to increase productivity, a wealth of information has been made available to developers, including over 1,400 examples from the Atmel Software Framework (ASF) for reference designs and Atmel’s Xplained Pro family of evaluation boards. ASF is a large library of free source code for Atmel SMART ARM and AVR devices. ASF minimises much of the low-level configuration and design required for projects to get off the ground, by providing hardware abstraction with consistent APIs, as well as high-value middleware components designed for evaluation, prototyping, design, and production phases.

“We are committed to providing simple, yet sophisticated tools for our designers’ complex development,” commented Steve Pancoast, Vice President of Development Software & Tools, Atmel. “Since the introduction of our AVRs in the early 90s, IAR Systems has always been an important partner for us, providing world class tools to our most demanding users. The integration of our reference application examples into IAR Embedded Workbench will reduce overall time-to-market for developers, enabling them to bring products faster to market.”

Stefan Skarin, Chief Executive Officer, IAR Systems, added; “High-performance development tools are critical for success in today’s advanced embedded systems designs, specifically for the IoT and connectivity markets. IAR Systems’ position is unique in that we are the only commercial vendor able to provide this, as well as our world class support, across Atmel’s entire range of MCU architectures.”