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News Release from: IAR Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2006
Tools to power single-chip ZigBee
development
IAR Systems is to provide the development tools for TI Low Power Wireless' new ZigBee starter kit.
IAR Systems is to provide the development tools for TI Low Power Wireless' new ZigBee starter kit The partnership is planned to help accelerate the market adoption of ZigBee based RF solutions
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Because IAR Systems C compilers support both 8051 industry standard MCUs and TI's MSP430 MCU, TI can easily maintain the Zigbee development platform for both MCU architectures.
"We chose IAR Systems because it is the leading provider of software development tools for 8051, and the ultracompact code generation from its C/C++ compilers will reduce development cost of ZigBee based products, as well as decrease the product's power consumption", commented Jarle Boe, Software and Tools Manager of TI Low Power Wireless.
"Using IAR Systems' development tools for this new family of revolutionary ZigBee products allows TI to focus on chip development, and gives our customer a well-proven development platform".
"The on-chip emulation capabilities of the CC2430 combined with the IAR Systems' C-Spy debugger front-end provides customers with the best development tools in the ZigBee market".
"TI is one of the world's leading providers of low-power RF chipsets, and we are excited about the possibilities brought about by the new partnership", added Olle Eriksson, President of IAR Systems.
"The 8051 tools are an important part of our product portfolio".
"We have already seen a good growth in sales of development tools following TI ZigBee design-ins, and with this partnership with a market leader in this technology we aim to secure our pole position as ZigBee tools provider".
IAR Systems will provide a 30 plus 30 days full-featured time-limited version of its C/C++ compiler and debugger tools with each TI CC2430ZDK ZigBee development kit.
All the communication software used by TI is based on the IAR Systems tools, yielding maximum stability and lowest possible memory footprint.
IAR Systems has also adapted its C-SPY debugger to the TI reference platform, enabling seamless development and debugging of the CC2430ZDK from IAR Embedded Workbench.
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