Foster City, CA—June 16, 2011—IAR Systems® today announced its collaboration with Qualcomm Atheros on its new AR4100 solution, a highly integrated, Wi-Fi system-in-package (SIP) for microcontroller based design. The new module is based on Qualcomm Atheros’ industry-leading 802.11b/g/n single-stream Wi-Fi Align® technology, enabling long range transmission while minimizing energy consumption. IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM® was selected as the preferred development tool for this Wi-Fi microcontroller (MCU) device.
The AR4100 is optimized for client applications hosted by low-resource MCUs that send infrequent data packets over the network. MCUs interface to the AR4100 via a simple serial peripheral interface bus (SPI) and will be initially aimed at customers in the smart home, smart grid and smart building markets.
“We are pleased to be working closely with Qualcomm Atheros in providing our development tools for the AR4100,” said Nadim Shehayed, general manager of Americas, IAR Systems. “The AR4100 Wi-Fi solution target market is an area that IAR Systems has a key presence in and we look forward to supporting our mutual customers.”
“IAR Embedded Workbench and tool-chain is very intuitive and easy to configure. The whole process of project creation to image download is simple and hassle free. My team was instinctively able to utilize it, out of the box, to build projects very quickly,” said Mahesh Iyer, director of software engineering, Qualcomm Atheros. “The debugging feature that comes with the tool was well liked by the development team. The IDE itself, unlike many others, has a much better response time and allows for faster development. My team has been able to cut down development time by a significant margin as a result.”
About IAR Systems
IAR Systems is the world’s leading supplier of software tools for developing embedded systems applications. The software enables over 14 000 large and small companies to develop premium products based on 8-, 16-, and 32-bit microcontrollers, mainly in the areas of industrial automation, medical devices, consumer electronics, telecommunication and automotive products. IAR Systems has an extensive network of partners and cooperates with the world’s leading semiconductor vendors. IAR Systems Group AB is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. For more information, please visit www.iar.com
