IAR Systems to showcase products for wireless System Deve...

IAR Systems to showcase products for wireless System Development at ESC

Portfolio of wireless related development tools covering 8051, AVR, MSP430, ARM7 and ARM Cortex microcontroller architectures on show

Uppsala, Sweden, March 26, 2009 - IAR Systems® AB (Stockholmsbörsen: IAR) will use the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), in San Jose, California, as a stage on which to present its embedded tools for wireless system development.

IAR Systems has partnered with microcontroller manufacturers Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and Texas Instruments® Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) to provide visitors to the show with working examples of how its hardware and software development tools for can be utilized in wireless applications. IAR Embedded Workbench is an independent development environment that now supports over 20 microcontroller architectures. Wireless applications demand compact code so that both application and communication stacks can be accommodated in the system memory.

“Wireless is proving to be among the fastest growing sectors within the embedded space, and we are now seeing uptake in such diverse areas as medical equipment, electrical metering, environmental monitoring, building automation and alarm systems” states Andreas Lifvendahl, Sales & Marketing Director, IAR Systems. “Although a number of our customers already have a strong presence here,” he adds “for others this is all relatively new. This is an opportunity for us to be able to show both existing and future potential clients the different types of solution that can be realized with the aid of our development offerings. Furthermore having some of our collaborations with companies like Atmel and Texas Instruments on display is certain to be a compelling prospect.”

“IAR Systems is now in a position to support a broad range of components and platforms for wireless applications based on specifications and standards such as Zigbee Simplicity and RFID. In nearly all these cases the code must not only be very compact but must be able to execute fast enough to adequately conserve power,” Lifvendahl confirms.