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Solution

Code quality and compliance

Ensure compliance with static and runtime analysis, improving code quality while reducing defects, maintenance, and regulatory risks.

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Early bug detection

Reduce software defects before production with comprehensive static and runtime analysis. This minimizes costly fixes, enhances software integrity, and ensures long-term reliability while streamlining debugging cycles.
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Regulatory readiness

Meet industry standards like MISRA C/C++, ISO 26262, and IEC 61508 with ease. Simplify certification for medical, automotive, and industrial applications, reducing compliance risks and accelerating regulatory approval while strengthening product safety from development to deployment.
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Optimized maintainability

Enforce best coding practices to prevent technical debt, keeping embedded software scalable, adaptable, and easy to maintain over time. This approach extends software longevity, reduces complexity, and lowers total cost of ownership.

Ensuring reliable, maintainable, and standards-compliant embedded software

IAR’s code quality and compliance solution helps teams detect and resolve issues early, reducing rework, security risks, and product recalls. Static and runtime analysis improve software integrity, streamline debugging, and lower defect rates before deployment.

With automated compliance checks for MISRA C/C++, CERT C, and CWE, software validation becomes more efficient, ensuring products meet medical, automotive, and industrial regulations. This simplifies certification, reduces compliance risks, and strengthens product safety.

Additionally, state-machine-driven development ensures consistent, auto-generated code, improving maintainability, predictability, and traceability. It aligns with IEC 61508 and other safety standards, simplifying verification and reducing errors in embedded systems.

Lower defect rates and faster development

Adopting coding standards and automated analysis tools significantly reduces defects and improves developer efficiency. Studies show coding standards lower defect injection by 41%, cutting test time and accelerating time to market.

Tech leaders like Google found integrating static analysis into the developer workflow significantly improves defect detection. Their research shows 74% of compile-time issues were real problems, compared to just 21% found after check-in. Instant feedback during compilation helps teams catch errors early, improving overall software quality.

By enforcing best coding practices, IAR’s solution reduces technical debt, improves scalability, and simplifies maintenance—ensuring cost-effective, high-quality embedded development.

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Building blocks

Explore IAR's code quality & compliance components

Enhance embedded software reliability with advanced analysis and compliance verification capabilities.

Product

IAR C-STAT

Detects defects, security vulnerabilities, and compliance issues early with powerful static analysis for MISRA C/C++, CERT C/C++, and industry standards

Product

IAR C-RUN

Identifies runtime errors, memory leaks, and overflows, improving software reliability and debugging efficiency.

Product

IAR Embedded Workbench

Complete toolchain with an industry-leading compiler, debugger, and analysis tools, ensuring efficient, high-performance embedded development.

Product

IAR Build Tools

Automates builds and testing in CI/CD pipelines with high-performance command-line tools, enabling scalable cloud and on-prem workflows.

Features

Proactive quality solutions for smarter, safer embedded development

Static and runtime code analysis tools

Detect vulnerabilities, inefficiencies, and coding standard violations in embedded software, reducing security risks and debugging time while improving maintainability and overall software lifecycle management.

MISRA C/C++ and functional safety compliance checks

Automate adherence to strict industry standards, ensuring software consistency, improving product safety, and reducing regulatory approval time while eliminating common software defects and code inefficiencies.

Performance and memory usage analysis

Provides detailed insights into software execution, detecting bottlenecks, optimizing runtime efficiency, and improving overall embedded system performance by reducing latency and increasing stability.

State-machine-driven development

Ensures consistent, auto-generated code, reducing errors and enhancing maintainability. It improves predictability, traceability, and compliance with IEC 61508, minimizing defects and simplifying verification for reliable, safety-certified embedded software.

Customer stories

Transforming challenges into success

Landis+Gyr – Early bug detection with static analysis

To maintain high product quality, we need tools that catch defects early in development. C-STAT allows us to find bugs faster, reduce time to market, and streamline development costs, making it a core tool across our sites.

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Osong Medical Innovation Foundation – Ensuring medical software certification

Quality and certification are critical for the future of high-tech medical devices. By using C-STAT, we can improve code quality while preparing for IEC 62304-certified functional safety upgrades to meet regulatory standards.

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NEWGIN – Strengthening software quality for the future

As firmware complexity grows, we see an increasing need for tools that help ensure software quality. Static analysis and CI tool integration will be key to improving reliability and maintaining high standards in development.

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VICTEK – High-quality code for secure IoT systems

Developing low-power IoT systems requires defect-free, high-quality code to ensure secure integration with optimized applications and networks, while minimizing cybersecurity risks.

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OSRAM – Using MISRA C for safer, more reliable software

Ensuring product reliability is key at OSRAM. By following MISRA C coding guidelines in IAR Embedded Workbench, we improve software quality, reducing risks in high-volume production.

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FAQ

How can teams ensure long-term maintainability of embedded software while meeting compliance requirements?

By enforcing coding standards, automated testing, and runtime analysis, teams can maintain code consistency, reduce technical debt, and ensure ongoing compliance with evolving industry regulations.

How does investing in code quality and compliance impact product reliability and market success?

High-quality, compliant code reduces failure rates, enhances security, and accelerates regulatory approvals, leading to lower warranty costs, fewer recalls, and stronger customer trust.

How do IAR’s compliance solutions support businesses in achieving certification faster?

IAR provides pre-certified toolchains, automated code analysis, and documentation support, reducing the complexity and cost of achieving regulatory certification for embedded products.

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