Uppsala, Sweden –IAR Systems® announced continued support for SiFive’s RISC-V Automotive CPU IP: The IAR Embedded Workbench™ for RISC-V which is aimed at the most recent SiFive Automotive E6-A and S7-A product series and addresses automotive application needs such as infotainment, connectivity, and ADAS, while also incorporating the single instruction set architecture (ISA) utilized by RISC-V to increase code portability and reduce cost and time-to-market.

Do more with less – this phrase, which captures Buckminster Fuller’s concept of ephemeralization, caught fire in the embedded space in the 1990s but never seems to go out-of-fashion. Managers constantly squeeze budgets and schedules to deliver products faster and cheaper, often with quality suffering as a result. Unlike Fuller’s vision of ever-increasing quality and solutions, this approach often results in the test phase of the product lifecycle being foreshortened to meet aggressive schedule goals and occasionally means cutting features from the final product (perhaps to be added later as a version update). 

Let’s explore techniques that will help developers find and fix defects more quickly, help save money on build material lists (BML), and perhaps avoid the challenges of ephemeralization. While the primary focus is on Arm-based cores, many of these techniques are directly applicable to other cores as similar functionality exists in many embedded devices.

IAR Systems announced the latest version of the complete development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for Arm v. 9.30, which fully supports the Renesas’ RZ/T2 and RZ/N2 series MPUs, based on Arm® Cortex®-R52.

IAR Systems announced its new v3.10 of IAR Embedded Workbench, and IAR Build Tools for Renesas RH850, a device often used to create solutions in the next generation vehicles by the automotive industry globally.

Supported by Microsoft, IAR Systems is now providing its embedded expertise and software solutions to developers using Visual Studio Code worldwide. The launch is in response to market demands and will help professionals accelerate development workflows.

I’m a Visual Studio Code (VS Code) user. If you’re not familiar with VS Code, it’s a source-code editor from Microsoft that is intended for systems based on Windows or Linux. It’s mostly used for debugging, but has lots of other great features. Oh, did I mention that it’s open source, aka free? Yup, the price is right.

Richard Lind is about seven months into his role as CEO of IAR Systems, one of the leaders in embedded development tools.