IAR Systems provides Stack Usage Analysis

Uppsala, Sweden—October 26, 2011—IAR Systems® today announced stack usage analysis functionality in its popular product IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM®. The stack is a fundamental property of an embedded system. A proper setup of the stack is essential to system stability and reliability. Incorrectly used it may cause your system to wreak havoc in the strangest ways. Calculating the stack space is notoriously hard for all but the smallest embedded systems. Worst case maximum stack depth is very useful information in most embedded projects, as it greatly simplifies estimates of how much