IAR Systems
IAR Systems is a Swedish computer software company that offers development tools for embedded systems. IAR Systems was founded in 1983, and is listed on Nasdaq Nordic in Stockholm. IAR is an abbreviation of Ingenjörsfirma Anders Rundgren, which means Anders Rundgren Engineering Company.
IAR Systems develops C and C++ language compilers, debuggers, and other tools for developing and debugging firmware for 8-, 16-, 32-, and 64-bit processors. 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 and RISC-V toolchains.
IAR Systems is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, and has more than 200 employees globally. The company operates subsidiaries in Germany, France, India, Japan, South Korea, China, United States, Taiwan, and United Kingdom 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 with compiler, analysis tools, debugger, functional safety, and security. The development tools support these targets: 78K, 8051, ARM, AVR, AVR32, CR16C, Coldfire, H8, HCS12, M16C, M32C, MSP430, Maxim MAXQ, RISC-V RV32, R32C, R8C, RH850, RL78, RX, S08, SAM8, STM8, SuperH, V850. Supported ARM core families are: ARM7, ARM9, ARM10, ARM11, Cortex: M0, M0+, M1, M3, M4, M7, M23, M33; R4, R5, R7; A5, A7, A8, A9, A15, A17. RISC-V tools support the RV32I, RV32E and RV64I base integer instruction sets and a wide range of standard and non-standard extensions.IAR Embedded Workbench C++ is dialectal and contains some features not part of standard C++.
ISO/ANSI C compliance; as of March 2017:
- ANSI X3.159-1989.
- ISO/IEC 9899:1990 including all technical corrigenda and addenda.
- ISO/IEC 9899:1999 including up to technical corrigendum No3.
- ISO/IEC 9899:2011.
- ISO/IEC 9899:2018.
- ISO/IEC 14882:2003.
- ISO/IEC 14882:2014.
- ISO/IEC 14882:2017.
- C++ as defined by ISO/IEC 14882:2003.
- Embedded C++ as defined by Embedded C++ Technical Committee Draft, Version WP-AM-0003, 13 October 1999.
- Extended Embedded C++, defined by IAR Systems.
- MISRA C:2004
- MISRA C:2012 Amendment 3
- MISRA C++:2008