March 2010
 
Welcome to e-News from IAR Systems
Earlier this month IAR Systems relaunched its development tools for Renesas SuperH. In this newsletter you will find an in-depth article describing the SuperH architecture.

Is IAR Embedded Workbench is used throughout your organization? If so, the press release regarding Landis+Gyr may be of interest to you. This big Swiss-based manufacturer of smart meters has signed a 3-year global license agreement with IAR Systems that gives Landis+Gyr full flexibility to switch between different target architectures. Maybe a similar agreement would be relevant also for your company.

We are also delighted to introduce another Swiss company, Bones Inc. Read their story about the challenges in developing assistive technology products.

Best regards,

Margareta Eriksson Hoerling
Marketing Communications Manager
IAR Systems
 
Viewpoints
The SH2A core, a superscalar architecture
The SH2A core is one of the fastest embedded MCU cores available on the market today.  It is used in many different markets today, from Automotive, to Industrial applications and also a great many consumer applications too.  It is available on many different devices from integrated low cost flash-based MCU solutions right the way up to ROMless dual core devices reaching up to nearly 1000DMIPS.

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Embedded technologies enhance daily life for persons with disabilities
Bones Inc., a Swiss company, evolved from an inspiring phone call in 2003. Stephan Knecht had resigned from his job in management consulting and was randomly calling companies and organizations for business ideas. The Swiss association for the blind and visually impaired immediately put him on the right track by providing detailed descriptions of necessary products for making society accessible in ways that most people take for granted.

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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.
 
EFM32 Gecko Development Kit
The EFM32 Gecko Development Kit from Energy Micro includes the EFM32-G8xx development board and the 32K limited edition of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM. The kit is available from our online store.
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IAR Embedded Workbench for SuperH
Version 2.10 is a new product for SH-2A and SH2A-FPU cores. It includes E10A-USB support with trace functionality and Elf/Dwarf internal object format.
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IAR Embedded Workbench for AVR32
Version 3.30 includes IAR Information Center, C-SPY support for debugging multiple images, 64-bit OS support and updated UC3 device support.
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IAR Embedded Workbench for HCS12
Version 3.20 includes hardware debug support for new devices, MISRA C:2004 support, IAR visualSTATE build integration and IAR Information Center.
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Press releases
The latest press releases from IAR Systems are available in our online Press Room.
 
IAR Systems supports Actel's new SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs
IAR Embedded Workbench® supports Actel's SmartFusion™ devices that integrate an FPGA, ARM® Cortex™-M3-based microcontroller subsystem and programmable analog on a single chip.
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Fujitsu selects IAR Systems to provide a development toolchain for the ‘Jade-L Starterkit’
IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM has been selected as a part of Fujitsu’s SK-86R03 'Jade-L Starterkit' package.
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Renesas SH-2A family gains development support from IAR Systems
IAR Embedded Workbench is now available for Renesas’ SH-2A and SH2A-FPU MCU architectures.
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Landis+Gyr selects IAR Systems development tools for smart metering
A 3-year global enterprise software licence agreement establishes IAR Systems as the preferred vendor of software development tools.
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Express Logic and IAR Systems team up to deliver development solutions for commercial applications in consumer, medical, and industrial devices
Integration between Express Logic's ThreadX® RTOS and IAR Embedded Workbench® includes combined support for ARM, ColdFire, V850, and H8 processor-based systems.
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Events

  • The Embedded Masterclass in the UK takes place in Cambridge on May 7 and in Bristol on May 12.

  • Our partner Netrino continues their Embedded Software Boot Camp at several US locations during spring. 
 
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