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The toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench gives you a complete IDE with everything you need in one single view - ensuring quality, reliability and efficiency in your embedded application. IAR Embedded Workbench is by many considered the best compiler and debugger toolchain in the industry.
This release includes a number of optimizations for execution speed.
Improved Source Browser
The following improvements have been made to the Source Browser:
Documentation Comments support in the editor
The editor can distinguish comments that start with /**, /*!, /// or //! as Documentation Comments. Inside a Documentation Comment, the editor can recognize keywords that begin with \ or @. If the keyword is recognized as a doxygen keyword, the Documentation Comment will appear in tooltips and parameter hints for variables and functions. See IAR Embedded Workbench IDE Project Management and Building Guide for more information.
Newer version of C-STAT
The static analysis tool C-STAT has been updated with 20 additional rules, a number of bugfixes and better reporting function.
Support new debugger
Support for STLINK-V3 has been added.
RX66T and RX72T support
The RX66T and RX72T families based on Renesas third-generation 32-bit RX CPU core (RXv3) are now supported. This includes support for the following new device features:
E2 emulator power debugging in C-SPY
The E2 emulator allows you to measure the dynamically changing current drawn by the user system. This is visualized as a graph in the C-SPY Timeline window as well as a list of time-current value pairs in the Power Log window. It is also possible to stop execution when the current goes above or below a certain user-defined threshold value.
C18 support
The default Standard C is now C18 (ISO/IEC 9899:2018).
C++17 support
The compiler now supports almost all C++17 features. The C++ library supports C++14 with no C++17 additions.
Improved Source Browser
The following improvements have been made to the Source Browser:
Documentation Comments support in the editor
The editor can distinguish comments that start with /**, /*!, /// or //! as Documentation Comments. Inside a Documentation Comment, the editor can recognize keywords that begin with \ or @. If the keyword is recognized as a doxygen keyword, the Documentation Comment will appear in tooltips and parameter hints for variables and functions. See IAR Embedded Workbench IDE Project Management and Building Guide for more information.
Updated user documentation
The IAR Embedded Workbench IDE Project Management and Building Guide, IAR C/C++ Development Guide and C-SPY Debugging Guide have been updated to reflect the product changes.
The default Standard C is now C18 (ISO/IEC 9899:2018).
The compiler now supports all C++17 features. The C++ library supports C++14 with no C++17 additions.
The code coverage and profiling windows in C-SPY can now be feed with streaming trace data when using the IAR I-jet Trace probes. This means that both code coverage and profiling data can be collected during infinite test runs. See IAR Embedded Workbench C-SPY Debugging Guide for more information.
The multicore support has been extended to support any number of asymmetrical cores. For example, it is now possible to debug and control a device with one A9, one M7, and two M4 cores, all synchronized by the Arm Coresight CTI mechanism under debugger control.
The following improvements have been made to the Source Browser:
The editor can distinguish comments that start with /**, /*!, /// or //! as Documentation Comments. Inside a Documentation Comment, the editor can recognize keywords that begin with \ or @. If the keyword is recognized as a doxygen keyword, the Documentation Comment will appear in tooltips and parameter hints for variables and functions. See IAR Embedded Workbench IDE Project Management and Building Guide for more information.
The CMSIS-Pack Manager now supports Generator Package Description Files (.gpdsc).
The Performance Monitoring window is a viewer for counting events or CPU clock cycles through the Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) available on Cortex A and Cortex R processors. This feature is only available when using an IAR I-jet probe. Live update is available on all recent Cortex-A cores. See IAR Embedded Workbench C-SPY Debugging Guide for more information.
A new window in the C-SPY debugger shows if the processor is sleeping or not. See IAR Embedded Workbench C-SPY Debugging Guide for more information.
The REMEDY RTOS Viewer from RoweBots is now included as a C-SPY plugin. It provides updated information on operating system objects and system state information for the UNISON RTOS.
This version adds support for new devices from Analog Devices, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba.
General improvements and fixes.
Support for ATmega808, ATmega809, ATmega1608, ATmega1609, and AT90SCR400 has been added.
The compiler and libraries add support for the latest C language standard ISO/IEC 9899:2011.
Note: the new C library binary object interface is incompatible with earlier versions of the product.
The compiler and libraries now support the latest C++ standard ISO/IEC 14882:2014.
Note: the new C++ library binary object interface is incompatible with earlier versions of the product.
The Unicode standard for consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text is now supported. This means that you can use Unicode characters (alphabetic, numeric, symbols, emoji, etc) in the source code.
General improvements of the IDE startup time and overall performance.
The IAR C/C++ compiler for RL78 now supports stack protection. A canary value will be placed between the stack variables and the return address so that the system can detect corruption of a function return address before the function returns to that address. The compiler will use heuristic to determine whether a function needs stack protection or not. If any defined local variable has the array type or a structure type that contains a member of array type, the function will need stack protection.
The MISRA C 2004 package in C-STAT has been updated with about 20 new checks, some of which are enabled by default.
SFR header files, linker configuration files, and device description files have been added for the latest Renesas devices.
The IDE has new artwork, enhancements to window management and docking, customizable toolbars, revised Information Center, and new tutorials.
The C-SPY Symbols and Registers windows have been re-designed with new features. The Symbols window now has a filtering function and a new column displaying to which program module a certain symbol belongs. Some of the new features in the Registers window are drag-and-drop support from source code windows, detailed register tool-tip information, and improved handling of user-defined registers groups.
The IDE Project Management and Building Guide has been updated to reflect the product changes.
Improved full report generation to reduce the risk of slowing down the IAR Embedded Workbench and/or external web-browser.
The RX66T family based on Renesas third-generation 32-bit RX CPU core (RXv3) is now supported.
Renesas Smart Configurator is a standalone tool for automatically generating control programs (device driver programs) for peripheral modules in accordance with settings. It can be downloaded from Renesas home page and fully supports code generation for IAR Embedded Workbench for RX. The generated modules are incorporated via the IAR Project Connection mechanism.
The REMEDY RTOS Viewer from RoweBots is now included as a C-SPY plugin. It provides updated information on operating system objects and system state information for the UNISON RTOS.
Newly added RX65N Envision Kit examples allows you to experience firmware updating using the new dual-bank flash function of the RX65N microcontroller, graphics performance using LCDC and a 2D drawing engine, and more.
IAR Embedded Workbench can now build projects using multiple parallel processes. This can improve build performance significantly on multi-core or multiple processor computers.
By specifying a wildcard character (*) as the configuration name, it is now possible to clean/build/make all configurations defined in the project file by calling iarbuild.exe only once.
Some of the DLIB libraries delivered with the product now contain optimized variants, such as a small integer division routine for Cortex-M0, or a fast strcpy implementation for cores that support the Thumb-2 ISA. The compiler and linker will automatically select the variant that matches the optimization goal. It is possible to override this selection by using the option --use_optimized_variants. See user guide corrections for more information.
The debugger now supports the latest CMSIS-DAP standard with WinUSB transfer mode resulting in faster debug experiences when using CMSIS-DAP v2 compliant boards.
Support for new devices from Ambiq, Cypress, Microchip, NXP, Qorvo.
The IDE has new artwork, enhancements to window management and docking, customizable toolbars, revised Information Center, and new tutorials.
The compiler and libraries add support for the latest C language standard ISO/IEC 9899:2011.
The compiler and libraries now support the latest C++ standard ISO/IEC 14882:2014.
The Unicode standard for consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text is now supported. This means that you can use Unicode characters (alphabetic, numeric, symbols, emoji, etc) in the source code.
With stack usage analysis enabled, a stack usage section will be added to the linker map file with listings of the maximum stack depth for each call graph root. The analysis process can be customized to take into account such constructs as calls via function pointers and recursion. The output can optionally be generated in XML format for post-processing activities.
The IAR C/C++ compiler for RH850 now supports stack protection. A canary value will be placed between the stack variables and the return address so that the system can detect corruption of a function return address before the function returns to that address. The compiler will use heuristic to determine whether a function needs stack protection or not. If any defined local variable has the array type or a structure type that contains a member of array type, the function will need stack protection.
Renesas Smart Configurator is a standalone tool for automatically generating control programs (device driver programs) for peripheral modules in accordance with settings. It fully supports code generation for IAR Embedded Workbench for RH850 and the generated modules are incorporated via the IAR Project Connection mechanism.
The C-SPY Symbols and Registers windows have been re-designed with new features. The Symbols window now has a filtering function and a new column displaying to which program module a certain symbol belongs. Some of the new features in the Registers window are drag-and-drop support from source code windows, detailed register tool-tip information, and improved handling of user-defined registers groups.
The MISRA C 2004 package in C-STAT has been updated with about 20 new checks, some of which are enabled by default.
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