June 2010
 
Welcome to e-News from IAR Systems
Power debugging has received a lot of attention lately and at Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley in April, IAR Systems recieved an "Honorable Mention" from VDC Research Group for our new power debugging technology.

In this newsletter you will find an in-depth article about power debugging and the first screenshot from IAR Embedded Workbench showing the power consumption in different functions. You also have the opportunity to be among the first to test power debugging.

We're very proud to present OSRAM GmbH—one of the leading lighting manufacturers in the world—and their video projector technology.

The next newsletter will be available by the end of August.

Best regards,

Margareta Eriksson Hoerling
Marketing Communications Manager
IAR Systems
 
Viewpoints
Video projectors—micromechanical mirror magic that fools the eye
OSRAM GmbH is one of the two largest lighting manufacturers in the world. With headquarters in Munich Germany, the company is part of Siemens AG.

OSRAM offers—among other lighting solutions—light source systems specifically designed for home and business video applications based on high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps or LEDs coming with their optimal drivers (so called ballasts). The superior combination of HID lamp and driver with UNISHAPE™ enhancement enables light-intensity control—microsecond by microsecond.

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What is power debugging?
Power debugging is beginning to appear as a concept in the embedded industry, but what do we mean? In this article we will take a look at what is driving this need in embedded systems, and the way to optimize software to minimize an application’s power consumption.
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Product news
Want to try the latest edition of a product? Evaluation editions of all new software products are available from www.iar.com/downloads.
 
IAR KickStart Kit for i.MX25
IAR KickStart Kit for Freescale's ARM9-based i.MX25 microcontroller is now available from our online store.
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New benchmark figures—IAR Embedded Workbench for AVR
Atmel recently published the results from their benchmark test of IAR Embedded Workbench for AVR and GCC-AVR. On average, IAR Embedded Workbench generated 25,5% less code than GCC-AVR.
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Press releases
The latest press releases from IAR Systems are available in our online Press Room.
 
Freescale ARM Cortex-M4 family gains early support from IAR Systems
Earlier this year IAR Systems released support for the ARM Cortex-M4 processor core. Now support has been added for Freescale’s Kinetis family, which is the first microcontroller family based on the new core to reach the market.
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IAR Systems collaborates with Freescale to develop i.MX25 starter kit
IAR Systems has announced the availability of an integrated development kit for the Freescale i.MX25 family of low power ARM®9-based microprocessors. IAR KickStart Kit for Freescale Semiconductor i.MX25 contains an i.MX25-SK evaluation board, software development tools together with a hardware debug probe. The starter kit will be showcased at Freescale Technology Forum, June 21–24, in Orlando, Florida.
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Freescale MQX Software Solutions gains support from IAR Systems
ColdFire software developers to benefit from integration between quality tools and extensive software components.
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IAR Embedded Workbench supports industry's highest number of Renesas microcontrollers
By providing a single tool chain for well over 5,000 different microcontroller devices across 10 product families, independent tool vendor IAR Systems supports more than 80% of Renesas Electronics’ microcontrollers.
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Events
Embedded Systems Conference in Boston, MA, takes place on September 20–23.
 
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