IAR Systems is a

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computer

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company that offers

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s for

embedded system An embedded system is a computer system—a combination of a computer processor, computer memory, and input/output peripheral devices—that has a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electronic system. It is ''embedded ...

s. IAR Systems was founded in 1983, and is listed on

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. IAR is an abbreviation of Ingenjörsfirma Anders Rundgren, which means Anders Rundgren Engineering Company. IAR Systems develops C and

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language

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debugger A debugger or debugging tool is a computer program used to test and debug other programs (the "target" program). The main use of a debugger is to run the target program under controlled conditions that permit the programmer to track its executi ...

s, and other tools for developing and debugging

firmware In computing, firmware is a specific class of computer software that provides the low-level control for a device's specific hardware. Firmware, such as the BIOS of a personal computer, may contain basic functions of a device, and may provide h ...

for 8-, 16-, and

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processors A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU performs basic arithmetic, logic, controlling, a ...

. The firm began in the 8-bit market, but moved into the expanding 32-bit market, more so for 32-bit

microcontroller A microcontroller (MCU for ''microcontroller unit'', often also MC, UC, or μC) is a small computer on a single VLSI integrated circuit (IC) chip. A microcontroller contains one or more CPUs ( processor cores) along with memory and programmabl ...

s. IAR Systems is headquartered in

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, Sweden, and has more than 200 employees globally. The company operates subsidiaries in

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, and

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and reaches the rest of the world through distributors. IAR Systems is a subsidiary of IAR Systems Group.

Products

* IAR Embedded Workbench – a development environment that includes a C/C++ compiler, code analysis tools C-STAT and C-RUN, security tools C-Trust and Embedded Trust, and debugging and trace probes * Functional Safety Certification option * Visual State – a design tool for developing

event-driven programming In computer programming, event-driven programming is a programming paradigm in which the flow of the program is determined by events such as user actions (mouse clicks, key presses), sensor outputs, or message passing from other programs or thr ...

systems based on the event-driven finite-state machine paradigm. IAR Visual State presents the developer with the

finite-state machine A finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: ''automata''), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract machine that can be in exactly one of a finite number o ...

subset of

Unified Modeling Language The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose, developmental modeling language in the field of software engineering that is intended to provide a standard way to visualize the design of a system. The creation of UML was originally m ...

(UML) for C/C++ code generation. By restricting the design abilities to state machines, it is possible to employ formal

model checking In computer science, model checking or property checking is a method for checking whether a finite-state model of a system meets a given specification (also known as correctness). This is typically associated with hardware or software system ...

to find and flag unwanted properties like state dead-ends and unreachable parts of the design. It is not a full UML editor. *IAR KickStart Kit – a series of software and hardware evaluation environments based on various microcontrollers.

IAR Embedded Workbench

The toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench, which supports more than 30 different processor families, is a complete

integrated development environment An integrated development environment (IDE) is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities to computer programmers for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source code editor, build automation tools ...

(IDE) with

, analysis tools,

functional safety Functional safety is the part of the overall safety of a system or piece of equipment that depends on automatic protection operating correctly in response to its inputs or failure in a predictable manner ( fail-safe). The automatic protection sys ...

, and

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. The development tools support these targets: 78K,

8051 The Intel MCS-51 (commonly termed 8051) is a single chip microcontroller (MCU) series developed by Intel in 1980 for use in embedded systems. The architect of the Intel MCS-51 instruction set was John H. Wharton. Intel's original versions were po ...

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, AVR,

AVR32 AVR32 is a 32-bit RISC microcontroller architecture produced by Atmel. The microcontroller architecture was designed by a handful of people educated at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, including lead designer Øyvind Strøm a ...

, CR16C,

Coldfire The NXP ColdFire is a microprocessor that derives from the Motorola 68000 family architecture, manufactured for embedded systems development by NXP Semiconductors. It was formerly manufactured by Freescale Semiconductor (formerly the semiconductor ...

, H8, HCS12, M16C, M32C,

MSP430 The MSP430 is a mixed-signal microcontroller family from Texas Instruments, first introduced on 14 February 1992. Built around a CPU, the MSP430 is designed for low cost and, specifically, low power consumption embedded applications. Applic ...

, Maxim MAXQ,

RISC-V RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five" where five refers to the number of generations of RISC architecture that were developed at the University of California, Berkeley since 1981) is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on est ...

RV32, R32C, R8C, RH850, RL78, RX, S08, SAM8, STM8,

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, V850. Supported ARM core families are:

ARM7 ARM7 is a group of 32-bit RISC ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Holdings for microcontroller use. The ARM7 core family consists of ARM700, ARM710, ARM7DI, ARM710a, ARM720T, ARM740T, ARM710T, ARM7TDMI, ARM7TDMI-S, ARM7EJ-S. The ARM7TDMI a ...

ARM9 ARM9 is a group of 32-bit RISC ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Holdings for microcontroller use. The ARM9 core family consists of ARM9TDMI, ARM940T, ARM9E-S, ARM966E-S, ARM920T, ARM922T, ARM946E-S, ARM9EJ-S, ARM926EJ-S, ARM968E-S, ARM99 ...

, ARM10,

ARM11 ARM11 is a group of 32-bit RISC ARM processor cores licensed by ARM Holdings. The ARM11 core family consists of ARM1136J(F)-S, ARM1156T2(F)-S, ARM1176JZ(F)-S, and ARM11MPCore. Since ARM11 cores were released from 2002 to 2005, they are no lon ...

, Cortex: M0, M0+, M1, M3, M4, M7, M23, M33; R4, R5, R7; A5, A7, A8, A9,

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, A17.

tools support the RV32 32-bit cores and extensions in version one. Future releases will include support for 64-bits, and the smaller RV32E base instruction set, functional safety certification, and security solutions. ISO/ANSI C Compliance; as of March 2017:Embedded Workbench language standards; IAR.
/ref> * ANSI X3.159-1989 (known as C89). * ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (known as C89 or C90) including all technical corrigenda and addenda. * ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (known as C99) including up to technical corrigendum No3. * ISO/IEC 9899:2011 (known as

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). (first available in ARM v8.10 tools)IAR Systems delivers major update of ARM development tools (v8.10); IAR Systems; March 14, 2017.
/ref> * ISO/IEC 9899:2018 (known as C17). (first available in ARM v8.40 tools) ISO/ANSI C++ Compliance; as of March 2017: * ISO/IEC 14882:2003 (known as

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). * ISO/IEC 14882:2014 (known as

C++14 C++14 is a version of the ISO/IEC 14882 standard for the C++ programming language. It is intended to be a small extension over C++11, featuring mainly bug fixes and small improvements, and was replaced by C++17. Its approval was announced on Augus ...

). (first available in ARM v8.10 tools) * ISO/IEC 14882:2017 (known as

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). (first available in ARM v8.30 tools)IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM version 8.30.1
/ref> Embedded C++ Compliance; as of February 2015: * C++ as defined by ISO/IEC 14882:2003. * Embedded C++ ( EC++) as defined by Embedded C++ Technical Committee Draft, Version WP-AM-0003, 13 October 1999. * Extended Embedded C++, defined by IAR Systems. MISRA C Rule Checking Conformance: * MISRA C:2004 * MISRA C:2012 Amendment 1 * MISRA C++:2008

References

External links

* {{Official website, www.iar.com Software companies of Sweden Companies based in Uppsala County Companies established in 1983 Embedded systems