IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm supports Raspberry Pi Pico
The latest version of the development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm supports the Raspberry Pi Pico development board based on a dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor.
The RP2040 features a dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ processor with 264kbyte internal RAM and support for up to 16Mbyte of off-chip flash and a wide range of flexible I/O options including I2C, SPI, and programmable I/O (PIO).
“We’re very excited to see support for Raspberry Pi RP2040 coming to the latest release of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm,” said Dr Eben Upton CBE, founder, Raspberry Pi Foundation. “Since launching RP2040, and the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico board, in January of this year, we’ve seen rapid community adoption of the platform. The availability of high-quality professional development tools is an important prerequisite to industrial adoption, so this is a key milestone for Raspberry Pi,” he added.
For Anders Holmberg, chief technology officer at IAR Systems, the decision was a logical one which supports IAR Systems’ efforts to accelerate design innovation.
“The Raspberry Pi Foundation offers a unique and engaging way for developers worldwide to be creative and innovative,” he said. “The ability to do fast prototyping and idea exploration on an easy-to-use development platform is one success factor in today’s fast-paced world of software development. IAR Embedded Workbench and the Raspberry Pi Pico take this one step further by enabling a direct path from the idea stage to incorporation into a professional software development workflow.”
IAR Embedded Workbench provides the market’s most diverse microcontroller support, says IAR Systems, as well as adapted licensing options to fit different organisations’ needs. The complete development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm provides developers with everything they need in one easy-to-use integrated development environment (IDE). The toolchain offers extensive debugging and analysis possibilities such as complex code and data breakpoints, runtime stack analysis, call stack visualisation, code coverage analysis and integrated monitoring of power consumption. To ensure code quality, the static code analysis tool C-STAT and the runtime analysis tool C-RUN are integrated.
IAR Systems also offers worldwide technical support and on-demand training.
IAR Systems supplies future-proof software tools and services for embedded development. The company is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden and has sales and support offices all over the world. Since 2018, Secure Thingz, the global domain expert in device security, embedded systems, and lifecycle management, is part of IAR Systems Group AB.
