IAR Embedded Workbench vastly improves performance for Atmel 8-bit AVR MCUs

Uppsala, Sweden—November 19, 2015—IAR Systems® has released a new version of its complete C/C++ development toolchain IAR Embedded Workbench® for AVR. Version 6.70 of the popular toolchain includes improved compiler optimizations as well as new device support and updates to the add-on tool C-STAT for static code analysis. “Embedded systems are growing in complexity and many applications are being migrated to 32-bit microcontrollers. Despite this, the 8-bit AVR microcontrollers are continuously being used in many applications for example within automotive, battery management and wireless