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The platform for modern software development teams

Empower your teams with a flexible platform to drive innovation, ensure compliance, and streamline workflows across industries. 

The platform for embedded development

How our solutions help you

Scale development operations with freedom and flexibility, accelerate innovation with code confidence, and simplify compliance while strengthening security.

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Architecture and device agnostic

Develop without limits on 20+ architectures

IAR’s platform supports multiple architectures like Arm and RISC-V, ensuring compatibility, eliminating vendor lock-in, and simplifying development across legacy and next-generation embedded systems.
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Cloud-ready, tailored for enterprises

Scale seamlessly with cloud-powered development

Seamlessly integrates with private, public, and hybrid cloud environments, enabling remote collaboration, scalable builds, and CI/CD automation while ensuring security, compliance, and efficient resource management.
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Functional safety always included

Ensure safety compliance from the start

Pre-certified tools ensure compliance with ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and IEC 62304, reducing certification complexity and helping teams build reliable, safety-critical applications in automotive, medical, and industrial systems.
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End-to-end embedded security

Secure your embedded systems at every stage

Built-in security features like secure boot, encrypted code, and runtime integrity verification protect against cyber threats, ensuring compliance with NIST, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), and ETSI standards.

See how it works

What makes the IAR platform different?

See the platform in action and learn how it supports DevOps integration, built-in functional safety and embedded security, flexible licensing, multi-architecture development, and faster, repeatable builds even years after release.

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Driving enterprise innovation

Explore how to streamline workflows, adopt cloud-native solutions, and ensure functional safety across diverse architectures. Watch the videos to learn how IAR helps teams develop smarter and faster.

Enabling consistent workflows with containerized and cloud-native solutions

Managing diverse environments and scaling workflows across distributed teams can be overwhelming. Without standardized build environments, maintaining consistency and efficiency becomes a challenge. IAR’s platform supports containerized development and cloud-native workflows, enabling reproducible environments, automation, and scalability. With CI/CD integration, teams can streamline development, improve collaboration, and accelerate time-to-market.

Scaling development and ensuring functional safety for long-term success

Growing teams and maintaining compliance with safety standards require efficient workflows and scalable processes. IAR’s CI/CD and safety-certified solutions simplify development, automate workflows, and ensure compliance with ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and IEC 62304. Whether managing legacy systems or adopting new architectures, IAR helps teams scale with confidence and long-term reliability.

Supporting diverse architectures and unifying development workflows

Siloed tools and vendor-specific dependencies slow down development. IAR’s unified platform bridges gaps across architectures, enabling seamless collaboration and efficient workflows. With advanced debugging, automation, and CI/CD integration, teams can accelerate development, improve efficiency, and reduce project delays—keeping innovation on track.

Modernizing embedded development at scale

Discover how IAR’s platform empowers embedded teams to innovate with confidence. From CI/CD automation and cloud-native workflows to functional safety and flexibility across architectures, see how it all connects smarter, faster, and more scalable.

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Trusted by industry leaders: IAR in numbers

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Solutions

Our key solutions

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Design and code generation

Accelerate development with visual modeling and state machines, enabling automated, error-free code generation and a streamlined design-to-code workflow.
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Comprehensive development

Unify coding, building, debugging, and testing in one seamless platform, reducing complexity and improving team efficiency across the development lifecycle.
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Embedded CI/CD

Automate testing and deployment with Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub, and GitLab integration, optimizing workflows for faster, more efficient development cycles.
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Code quality and compliance

Ensure standards compliance with static and runtime analysis, improving code quality while reducing maintenance and defect costs, supporting regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
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Debugging and trace

Enhance real-time analysis and fault detection with advanced debugging and trace tools, including multi-core support, to improve code efficiency, system stability, and performance tuning.
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Functional safety

Ensure compliance with TÜV-certified tools, reducing defects and simplifying certification for automotive, industrial automation, medical, and other regulated industries.
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Embedded security

Protect firmware with secure boot, encryption, IP protection and secure production, ensuring compliance with cybersecurity standards like the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
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Long-term assurance services

Future-proof your projects with migration support, tailored services, and expert guidance, ensuring seamless adaptation to evolving embedded requirements.

Customer cases

Transforming challenges into success

Get inspiration on how world-leading companies enhance their embedded development with our platform.

Casio — Improving time to market

Although we increased performance, we also had to maintain power consumption, which is why we divided processing into two cores. It was a lot of work, but we were able to find a balance between improved performance and power efficiency.

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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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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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Key take aways

IAR platform

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Scale development with freedom & flexibility

  • Enterprise scalability​
  • Multi-architecture support: Arm, RISC-V, Renesas RX & RL78, AVR, and more​
  • Unified tools for global teams​
  • Cloud-native, hybrid, or on-prem enabled workflows​

Proven results​

  • 40% faster platform migration​
  • Lower costs with flexible deployment
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Accelerate innovation with code confidence

  • Integrated solutions​
  • Code quality: Static & runtime analysis for standard compliance​
  • Performance: Optimized compilers & debugging tools​
  • CI/CD automation: Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub integration​

Proven results​

  • 3.5× faster analysis on Linux-based CI/CD​
  • Higher productivity with automation
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Simplify compliance & strengthen security

  • Future-proof development​
  • Functional safety: TÜV-certified for automotive, medical, industrial automation​
  • Embedded security: IP protection, authentication, compliance​
  • Continuous updates for evolving standards​

Proven results​

  • 50% defect cost reduction with compliance tools​
  • Trusted by leading manufacturers
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Products in IAR's platform

The tools and features part of IAR platform

Product

IAR Embedded Workbench

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

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IAR Build Tools

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

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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

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IAR C-RUN

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

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IAR Embedded Trust

Provides a secure development framework with encryption, secure boot, and device authentication for embedded systems.

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IAR Embedded Secure IP

Safeguards embedded IP from cloning, tampering, and unauthorized access with strong encryption and device authentication.

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IAR Secure Deploy

Protects firmware during production with IP protection, anti-cloning measures, and secure provisioning workflows.

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IAR debug probes

High-speed debugging and trace probes enabling real-time analysis, performance optimization, and fault detection for embedded applications.

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IAR Visual State

Enables graphical state machine modeling for efficient system design, automated code generation, and validation of complex embedded applications.

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IAR VS Code extensions

Enables IAR’s build and debugging tools within Visual Studio Code, providing a modern, flexible development workflow.

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IAR Eclipse plugins

The IAR Eclipse plugin integrates IAR’s build toolchains and debuggers into Eclipse, enabling efficient, cross-architecture embedded development with advanced debugging.

How IAR's platform supports both your embeddeddevelopment projects and business goals

How can IAR’s platform help in streamline development across multiple architectures without reworking toolchains?

IAR’s platform supports over 20 architectures, including Arm, RISC-V, AVR, RL78 and 8051, providing a unified toolchain that eliminates the need for switching environments.

What’s the best way to integrate IAR’s tools into an existing CI/CD pipeline to improve automation?

IAR integrates with Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, and Kubernetes, enabling automated builds and continuous testing.

How does IAR’s platform reduce development costs and speed up time-to-market across different projects?

By unifying workflows and enabling automation, IAR’s platform cuts down debugging time, reduces rework, and minimizes certification costs.

What are the business advantages of using a vendor-agnostic embedded development platform?

Vendor lock-in can limit flexibility and increase costs. IAR’s platform ensures teams can work across different microcontrollers and architectures.

How does IAR’s long-term support help us future-proof our embedded product lifecycle?

IAR can provide extended maintenance, compliance updates, and migration support, ensuring software sustainability as hardware evolves.

The backbone of embedded innovation

Learn the basics about embedded development

Here we have gathered questions and answers,  why embedded development tools are essential for software developers.

What are embedded development tools?

Embedded development tools are software and hardware solutions designed to simplify, optimize, and automate embedded system development. They enable engineers to write, compile, test, debug, and optimize firmware running on microcontrollers (MCUs) and processors.

Why are embedded tools essential?
  • Code compilation & linking – translating high-level code into machine instructions efficiently
  • Debugging & runtime analysis – identifying memory leaks, crashes, and real-time issues
  • Command-line and automation support – enabling build automation with tools like CMake, Makefiles, and CI/CD pipelines
  • Hardware debugging & monitoring – using JTAG, SWD, and debug probes for real-time execution analysis
  • Security & compliance – ensuring compliance with functional safety (ISO 26262, IEC 61508), cybersecurity (IEC 62443), and coding standards (MISRA C, CERT C)

A leading example is IAR Embedded Workbench, which integrates an optimizing compiler, linker, debugger, runtime analysis, and command-line build tools, offering a seamless development experience across multiple architectures.

How to choose the best embedded development tools?

Selecting the right tools ensures efficiency, compatibility, and scalability.

Key factors include:

  • Ease of use & productivity

A toolchain should provide intuitive development workflows with integrated debugging, static analysis, and automated testing.

  • Compatibility with hardware

Support for multiple MCUs and architectures (Arm, RISC-V, MSP430, AVR, Renesas RL78) is crucial. IAR Embedded Workbench supports a broad range of architectures, ensuring developers have flexibility in their projects.

  • Debugging & optimization

Real-time debugging, trace analysis, and runtime profiling are essential for reliability.

  • Scalability & CI/CD integration

Tools should support command-line builds (CLI), CMake, and integration with CI/CD platforms like GitHub, GitLab, and Jenkins for automated testing.

  • Security & compliance

Coding standards (MISRA, CERT C), security frameworks (IEC 62443), and functional safety (ISO 26262, IEC 61508) should be built-in.

Which embedded development tools should you know about?
Category Examples

IDEs

IAR Embedded Workbench, Keil, Eclipse

Compilers & linkers

IAR C/C++ Compiler, GCC, LLVM

Debuggers & probes

JTAG, GDB, IAR C-SPY Debugger, I-jet

IoT kits

Raspberry Pi, STM32 discovery kits, ST Nucleo boards

RTOS tools

FreeRTOS, ThreadX, PX5 RTOS, Zephyr RTOS

 

What are the advantages of using embedded development tools?
  • Efficiency – automate builds, debugging, and deployment with CLI tools
  • Cost-savings – reduce debugging time and prevent costly errors
  • Reliability – ensure functional safety and compliance with analysis tools
  • Security – detect vulnerabilities and prevent cyber threats

IAR Embedded Workbench
combines all these benefits, streamlining embedded workflows from development to production.

What are the common pitfalls when selecting embedded tools?

Choosing the wrong tools can lead to inefficiencies and costly mistakes. Here’s a quick checklist to help avoid common pitfalls:

Common mistakes

Avoidance checklist

Limited architecture support

Select tools with broad compatibility (Arm, RISC-V, etc.)

Weak debugging features

Ensure real-time debugging, profiling, and trace analysis support

No CI/CD integration

Choose tools with CLI, CMake, and pipeline support

Overlooking compliance needs

Use tools that support MISRA C/C++, ISO 26262, IEC 61508
What is IoT development kits?

These kits simplify IoT firmware and hardware integration, allowing developers to prototype and deploy IoT applications.

  • Examples: Raspberry Pi, STM32 discovery kits, ST Nucleo boards
What are Firmware development tools?

Firmware tools help engineers write, test, and optimize code for low-power and high-performance embedded devices.

What are Real-time operating system (RTOS) tools?

RTOS solutions manage real-time tasks, ensuring predictable system behavior in time-sensitive applications.

  • Examples: FreeRTOS, ThreadX, PX5 RTOS, Zephyr RTOS
What’s ahead for embedded development tools?

The next wave of embedded tools will focus on:

  • Cloud-native development – enabling remote debugging and cloud CI/CD automation
  • Low-power profiling tools – optimizing energy efficiency in battery-powered IoT devices
  • Open-source collaboration – expanding community-driven tools for cross-platform development

IAR continues to lead innovation in embedded tools, adapting to these trends while ensuring performance, security, and efficiency.
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