IAR Systems

IAR Systems
Native name
Ingenjörsfirma Anders Rundgren
Anders Rundgren Engineering Company
TypeDivision
IndustryProgramming tools, software engineering
Founded1983; 43 years ago (1983) in Uppsala, Sweden
FounderAnders Rundgren
Headquarters
Uppsala
,
Sweden
Number of locations
13 offices (2024)
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsIAR Embedded Workbench
IAR Build Tools
IAR Visual State
IAR I-jet/I-jet Trace
Number of employees
200
Websitewww.iar.com

IAR Systems Group AB has been fully owned by Qt Group since October 2025, operating as an independent business unit. It is a Swedish computer software company that offers development tools for embedded systems. IAR was founded in 1983. IAR is an abbreviation of Ingenjörsfirma Anders Rundgren, which means Anders Rundgren Engineering Company.

IAR develops C and C++ language compilers, debuggers, and other tools for developing and debugging firmware for 8-, 16-, 32-, and 64-bit processors. The firm began in the 8-bit market, later moved into the expanding 32-bit market and, in more recent years, added 64-bit support to its Arm (2021) and RISC-V (2022) toolchains.

IAR is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, and has more than 200 employees globally. The company operates subsidiaries in Germany, France, India, Japan, South Korea, China, United States, Taiwan, and United Kingdom and reaches the rest of the world through distributors.

Products

Key products include:

IAR Embedded Workbench

The toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench, which supports more than 30 different processor families, is a complete integrated development environment (IDE) with compiler, analysis tools, debugger and functional safety. The development tools support these targets: 78K, 8051, ARM, AVR, AVR32, CR16C, Coldfire, H8, HCS12, M16C, M32C, MSP430, Maxim MAXQ, RISC-V RV32, R32C, R8C, RH850, RL78, RX, S08, SAM8, STM8, SuperH, V850. Supported ARM core families are: ARM7, ARM9, ARM10, ARM11, Cortex: M0, M0+, M1, M3, M4, M7, M23, M33; R4, R5, R7; A5, A7, A8, A9, A15, A17. RISC-V tools support the RV32I, RV32E and RV64I base integer instruction sets and a wide range of standard and non-standard extensions.

IAR Embedded Workbench C++ is dialectal and contains some features not part of standard C++.

ISO/ANSI C compliance; as of March 2017:

ISO/ANSI C++ compliance; as of March 2017:

Embedded C++ compliance; as of February 2015:

MISRA C rule checking conformance:

References

  1. ↑ "Qt Group Press release".
  2. ↑ "This is IAR Systems". IAR Systems. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "IAR Systems introduces support for 64-bit processors".
  4. ↑ "IAR Systems extends powerful RISC-V solutions with 64-bit support".
  5. ↑ embedded.com, embedded.com (01/09/2026). "IAR Adds Native Linux Support to Cross-Platform Embedded IDE". {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. ↑ "Embedded Workbench targets". IAR. Archived from the original on 20 February 2015.
  7. ↑ "IAR C/C++ Compiler User Guide for AVR" (PDF). IAR Systems.
  8. 1 2 3 "Embedded Workbench language standards; IAR". Archived from the original on 20 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  9. 1 2 3 4 IAR Systems delivers major update of ARM development tools (v8.10); IAR Systems; March 14, 2017.
  10. ↑ Embedded Workbench for ARM version 8.40.1
  11. ↑ IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM version 8.30.1