IAR, a global provider of embedded development software and services, supports certified static analysis capabilities in the latest version of its Embedded Workbench for Arm.

IAR announced on the 21st that it has released the latest version of its flagship product, IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm, 9.50.3 Functional Safety Edition.

This announcement enables developers to create safer, more secure, and more compliant embedded applications across a wide range of industries, including automotive, medical devices, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.

A key feature of this release is the availability of a certified version of C-STAT, a static code analysis tool certified for safety-critical applications.

The latest IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm, a functional safety edition, is C++17 compliant and adds support for new Arm cores for Cortex-M55, Cortex-M85, Cortex-R52, Cortex-R82, and Cortex-A32, ensuring compliance with key functional safety standards such as IEC 61508, ISO 26262, and IEC 62304.

It also improves software reliability by integrating IAR C-STAT for static analysis and IAR C-RUN for runtime analysis, which are powerful code analysis tools, and it complies with MISRA C, CERT Ensures compliance with coding standards such as C and CWE.

The TÜV SÜD-certified C-STAT tool is now available in a certified version. This certified version allows developers to perform thorough static analysis, enabling them to more easily and reliably comply with safety standards.

C-STAT can detect various potential issues, such as deviations from coding standards such as MISRA C and CERT C, and code vulnerabilities.

These pre-detection capabilities can improve overall reliability and accelerate time to market by eliminating the need for time-consuming and costly fixes late in the development cycle.

“IAR C-STAT plays a critical role in ensuring safety compliance,” said Bill Lamie, founder and CEO of PX5 RTOS and previously co-founder and CEO of ThreadX/Microsoft Azure RTOS. “We used C-STAT to review our PX5 RTOS code, and it was an invaluable tool, enabling AI to quickly review our code. Developers get the most value from the synergy between IAR’s certified toolchain and PX5’s advanced RTOS. It’s now unthinkable to develop products without C-STAT.” He highlighted the role of IAR C-STAT in IAR’s latest functional safety release.

IAR solutions support modern development practices, including Continuous Integration (CI) and automated builds, to meet the demands of today's increasingly faster development cycles. This toolchain supports a scalable build server topology across multiple platforms, including Linux (Ubuntu and Red Hat) and Windows, allowing for seamless integration into existing development environments.

“The latest version of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm, the Functional Safety Edition, is tailored to accelerate innovation by seamlessly integrating static code analysis into CI-based workflows, enabling developers and teams to automatically comply with functional safety standards,” said Anders Holmberg, CTO at IAR. “This certified version includes an IAR C-STAT compliance report, which provides developers with valuable information about the supported standards and enforcement rules to help ensure the compliance and reliability of their applications.”

For more information about the certified IAR Embedded Workbench Functional Safety Edition for Arm and other IAR solutions for developing safety-related applications, please visit https://www.iar.com/products/requirements/function-safety/dptj.