IAR Systems is a Swedish computer

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company that offers

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s for

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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 C++ language

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debugger A debugger is a computer program used to test and debug other programs (the "target" programs). Common features of debuggers include the ability to run or halt the target program using breakpoints, step through code line by line, and display ...

s, and other tools for developing and debugging

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for 8-, 16-, 32-, and

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. The firm began in the 8-bit market, later moved into the expanding 32-bit market and, in more recent years, added 64-bit support to its Arm (2021) and RISC-V (2022) toolchains. IAR Systems is headquartered in

Uppsala Uppsala ( ; ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the capital of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019. Loc ...

, 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

Key products include: ** IAR Embedded Workbench – an integrated development environment featuring a highly optimized C/C++ compiler, the C-SPY debugger, and the static and runtime analysis tools C-STAT and C-RUN. ** IAR Build Tools – designed for automated build and test processes in CI/CD environments, available for both Windows and Linux. ** IAR Visual State – a graphical design tool for state-based software architecture with code generation in C, C++, C#, or Java. ** Security and Functional Safety Extensions – including Secure Deploy, security analysis tools, and TÜV-certified toolchains for standards like ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and IEC 62304. The platform supports over 20 architectures, including ARM, RISC-V, MSP430, RL78, AVR.

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 Application software, software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source-code editor, build automation tools, an ...

(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 system ...

, and

security Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercion). Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, or any other entity or ...

. 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 w ...

ARM In human anatomy, the arm refers to the upper limb in common usage, although academically the term specifically means the upper arm between the glenohumeral joint (shoulder joint) and the elbow joint. The distal part of the upper limb between ...

, 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 ...

, CR16C, Coldfire, 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 was designed for low power consumption, embedded applications and low cost. Features The f ...

, Maxim MAXQ,

RISC-V RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) based on established reduced instruction set computer (RISC) principles. The project commenced in 2010 at the University of California, Berkeley. It transfer ...

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 an ...

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 reduced instruction set computer, RISC ARM architecture, 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 cor ...

, Cortex: M0, M0+, M1, M3, M4, M7, M23, M33; R4, R5, R7; A5, A7, A8, A9, A15, A17.

tools support the RV32I, RV32E and RV64I base integer instruction sets and a wide range of standard and non-standard extensions. ISO/ANSI C Compliance; as of March 2017: * 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 C99 (previously C9X, formally ISO/IEC 9899:1999) is a past version of the C programming language open standard. It extends the previous version ( C90) with new features for the language and the standard library, and helps implementations mak ...

) including up to technical corrigendum No3. * ISO/IEC 9899:2011 (known as C11). (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

C++03 C++03 is a version of the ISO/ IEC 14882 standard for the C++ programming language. It is defined by two standards organizations, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), in ...

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

C++14 C14, C.XIV or C-14 may refer to: Time * The 14th century * Carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon ** Radiocarbon dating, C-14 dating, a method for dating events Science * IEC 60320#C14, IEC 60320 C14, a polarised, three pole socket electrical ...

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

C++17 C17, C-17 or C.17 may refer to: Transportation * , a 1917 British C-class submarine Air * Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, a military transport aircraft * Lockheed Y1C-17 Vega, a six-passenger monoplane * Cierva C.17, a 1928 English experimental ...

). (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 MISRA C is a set of software development guidelines for the C (programming language), C programming language developed by Motor Industry Software Reliability Association, The MISRA Consortium. Its aims are to facilitate code safety, Computer secur ...

:2004 * MISRA C:2012 Amendment 3 * 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 Companies listed on Nasdaq Stockholm Uppsala