IAR Systems signs development agreement with Renesas for RX MCU tools
(Business News, 23 May 2008 )
IAR Systems has announced that it has signed an agreement with leading Japanese semiconductor vendor Renesas Technology Corp. to develop a range of software tools and commercial software for the new Renesas RX microcontroller family.
Renesas and IAR Systems have a long history together, originating in earlier partnerships with Hitachi Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, founders of Renesas. Over the years, the partnership has resulted in support from IAR Systems for most Renesas microcontroller families, currently including H8, H8S, R8C, M16C, M32C and R32C.
The agreement includes development of RX support in IAR Systems renowned C/C++ development environment IAR Embedded Workbench, as well as in the software product family IAR PowerPac with real-time operating system, file system, USB stack and TCP/IP stack. IAR Systems will also deliver a Japanese language version of IAR Embedded Workbench for RX, which will make it more attractive to the Japanese market where Renesas has an exceptional market share.
IAR Systems tools and software for Renesas RX family will be available in the course of 2009.
