Embedded development firm IAR Systems is to link live power consumption data into its Embedded Workbench development and debugging environment.
“With this software, we have made it possible to measure power consumption in the application. You can look at a peak, see how many mA, and go and see where you are in the code,” IAR marketing director Fredrik Medin told EW.
The firm plans to have beta releases in Q2 and a full product after the summer.
In the proof-of-concept hardware, current measurements are initiated by the debugger through one of IAR’s J-Link probes.
Sampling is currently too coarse to see exactly which line of code initiated a current spike, which the firm is working on said Medin: “The code window per current sample needs to be quite narrow.”
The concept was announced today at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose.
Also in San Jose, IAR announced two products: a tool suite for STMicroelectronics’ STM8, and support for ARM Cortex-M4 MPU/DSP.
“We have been strong in STM32 and now we support STM8 in the same working environment,” said Medin.
“The demand for 8bit devices continues to be strong across our industry and we are responding accordingly,” added IAR product director Mats Ullstrom.
Ullstrom also commented on the M4 tools.
“Our tools for Cortex-M3 processor have been tremendously successful and we are currently cooperating with several of the Cortex-M4 processor licensees to ensure chip-specific support is available when their first devices reach the market,” he said.