IAR Systems and Freescale partner on ZigBee design kit

IAR Systems has announced an agreement with the Wireless Connectivity Group of Freescale Semiconductor to include IAR Systems development tools and debug probe in the next generation of Freescale’s development kits based on the MC1322x IEEE 802.15.4 Platform-in-Package (PiP) IC. Freescale’s BeeKit Wireless Connectivity Toolkit, which also is included in the kits, provides direct support for IAR Embedded Workbench, easing the integration from BeeKit software to Embedded Workbench.

The high-end versions of the development kits are expected to include a Baseline Edition of IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM® technology with EABI support, and a J-Link JTAG debug probe, while users of the low and mid-range kits will be provided with a choice of installing either the 32kB code-size limited KickStart Edition of IAR Embedded Workbench or a 30-day evaluation licence for the full version of the tool, again with a J-Link probe included.

About BeeKit
BeeKit is a stand alone software application that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) in which the user can create, modify, save and update wireless network solutions based on Freescale's protocol stacks. The BeeKit development environment provides a wizard and solution explorer that allows the user to quickly and easily configure parameters before creating the project, greatly reducing the need to sift through individual files and manually configure parameters. With the comprehensive code base of wireless networking libraries, application templates, and sample applications, the user generates the appropriate workspace files to be imported into an integrated development environment (IDE) for continued development and debugging. BeeKit is designed to be easily scalable to support new code bases and functionality.

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