IAR, Renesas development tools for SuperH family

UPPSALA, SWEDEN: IAR Systems has signed a contract with Renesas Technology Corp. to develop a version of IAR Embedded Workbench for Renesas SH-2A core microcontrollers of the SuperH family.

IAR Embedded Workbench is a set of development tools for building and debugging embedded applications using assembler, C, and C++. It will bring high-performance code generation and advanced debugging capabilities to embedded designs incorporating SuperH microcontrollers. Applications include the automotive, industrial, and consumer appliances fields.

Stefan Skarin, CEO of IAR Systems, says: “We are honored to be selected by Renesas to provide development tools for the SuperH family. This contract shows that even in today’s harsh market conditions, chip vendors prioritize investments in attractive development tools to secure support for their architectures. We are confident that the performance our tools bring to the SuperH family will contribute to its continued success.”

The agreement extends a long-established relationship between Renesas and IAR Systems. Today, IAR Systems supports most Renesas microcontroller architectures, including the new RX CPU, and the addition of the SuperH family further emphasizes the company’s position as Renesas key third-party tool vendor for IAR Systems.

In a first instance, IAR Embedded Workbench for SuperH will support the SH-2A core product series. It will be available for selected customers from July 2009 and generally available in the first quarter of 2010.