The latest version of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm supports Semidrive's 9 Series SoC and E3 MCU chips, contributing to the creation of powerful embedded development solutions for developers in the Chinese automotive industry.

IAR Systems®, together with SemiDrive Technology, a leading Chinese manufacturer of automotive-grade chips, announced IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm Version 9.30, the latest version of the development toolchain that fully supports SemiDrive's 9 Series SoCs and E3 MCU chips.

Jason Zhang, Chairman of Semidrive, stated, “IAR Systems is a world-leading provider of software tools and services for embedded development, and IAR’s toolchain has met the industry’s demand for development tools with superior performance and stability. We express our deep gratitude for IAR Systems’ enthusiastic support. On April 12, 2022, Semidrive launched the E3 series of automotive-grade MCUs, which offer outstanding performance and reliability. These products are now fully supported by IAR Systems’ most renowned product, IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm version 9.30. This enables Semidrive to provide better service to customers worldwide.” “As a chip manufacturer contributing to the automotive industry, Semidrive is always ready to collaborate and innovate with various companies across the automotive sector to build a broad ecosystem. Semidrive has been collaborating with more than 200 ecosystem partners to date,” he said.

Kiyo Uemura, Vice President of APAC at IAR Systems, said, “We are very pleased to partner with Semidrive. Semidrive is a company with outstanding R&D and innovation capabilities that enable the new version of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm to fully support Semidrive’s 9 Series SoC and E3 Series MCU chips. As a world-leading tool provider for embedded system development, IAR Systems has always placed great importance on the Chinese market. This announcement demonstrates IAR’s long-term commitment to supporting Chinese customers and the Chinese market, and we will continue to collaborate with global ecosystem partners in China to ensure that our mutual customers can maximize the potential of these chips.”

Semidrive's E3 series MCU products, featuring excellent performance and reliability, can be widely utilized in applications requiring high levels of security and reliability, including Drive-By-Wire chassis, brake control, BMS, ADAS/Autopilot motion control, LCD devices, HUDs, and streaming media vision system CMS.

Semidrive established very high reliability and safety goals early in the design of the E3 MCU by meeting the requirements of the AEC-Q100 Grade 1 automotive reliability standard and the ISO 26262 ASIL-D functional safety standard.

The main frequency of the E3 series products is up to 800 MHz. The E3 is equipped with up to six CPU cores, four of which can be configured as dual-core lock-step or operate independently, narrowing the gap with high-end automotive-grade MCU products with excellent safety in the Chinese domestic market.

IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm version 9.30 provides a complete toolchain for the reliable Cortex-R5 cores of 9 Series SoCs and E3 chips. This toolchain includes a highly optimized compiler as well as advanced debugging features such as flexible code and data breakpoints, runtime stack analysis, and call stack visualization. Developers can improve code quality during the daily product development process by utilizing the code analysis tools C-STAT and C-RUN.

For companies requiring strict functional safety requirements, Embedded Workbench for Arm offers a version that is TUV SUD certified and meets ISO 26262 requirements. For companies using Continuous Integration (CI) workflows and automated build and test processes, IAR Embedded Workbench's build tools also support a Linux version.

IAR's auxiliary hardware debugger, the I-Jet, can support developers' multi-core debugging tasks. Furthermore, IAR Systems' technical support, training services, and flexible licensing model enable all customers to find a solution that meets their specific needs and use IAR development tools seamlessly.