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Factory & Process Automation
Deterministic control, long-term stability, and simplified functional safety compliance.
PLCs, industrial controllers, and distributed I/O systems rely on deterministic execution and predictable behavior over decades, typically built on platforms such as STM32, Renesas RA/RX/RZ, Infineon XMC, and NXP MCX.
IAR enables safety-certified and deterministic control software with TÜV SÜD-certified IEC 61508 toolchains, real-time trace, and highly optimized code generation, reducing certification effort while delivering up to 20–30% smaller code size to lower MCU cost and extend product lifecycles.
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Robotics & Motion Control
Microsecond precision, synchronized motion, and safety-ready performance.
Industrial robots, servo drives, and motion platforms demand microsecond-level timing and hard real-time Ethernet, commonly built on Renesas RX/RZ, NXP MCX, Infineon XMC, and STM32 platforms using EtherCAT, PROFINET, or SERCOS.
IAR delivers highly optimized control-loop performance, real-time trace, and deterministic debugging, enabling smoother motion, lower jitter, and up to 29.8% higher execution performance, improving response time and axis synchronization.
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Power, Energy & Electrification
Efficient control, predictable execution, and safety-driven development.
Power converters, inverters, motor drives, and energy systems rely on efficient control algorithms using platforms such as Infineon XMC, TI MSP430, STM32, and Renesas RX/RA.
IAR improves control efficiency through compact and fast code, floating-point optimization, and power-aware debugging, helping teams reduce memory footprint by up to 30% and lower overall BOM cost while meeting IEC 61508 safety requirements.
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Building & Industrial Infrastructure Automation
Secure, maintainable systems with long-term architectural flexibility.
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC), lighting, access control, and industrial infrastructure systems demand reliable operation, strong security, and long-term maintainability across platforms such as STM32, Renesas RA/RZ, NXP MCX, and STM32MP1.
IAR provides safety-ready development with secure boot, firmware signing, and long-term toolchain stability, eliminating up to 12 months of in-house functional safety tool validation and protecting infrastructure investments over 10–20 year product lifecycles.
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Industrial Logistics & Asset Tracking
Reliable fleet-scale deployment with secure and efficient software.
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), and asset-tracking systems demand reliable firmware updates, low power consumption, and secure operation at scale, built on Renesas RX, NXP MCX, STM32, and RISC-V devices.
IAR reduces memory footprint and build complexity while enabling secure firmware workflows and CI/CD-ready automation, cutting build times by up to 50% and supporting efficient updates across thousands of deployed devices.
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Industrial IoT & Smart Systems
Secure connectivity, scalable development, and long product lifecycles.
Industrial IoT systems connect machines and sensors for predictive maintenance and remote monitoring across mixed hardware generations.
IAR enables cloud-ready development with containerized build tools, certified code analysis, and secure provisioning, helping teams shorten debugging time by up to 80% and accelerate time-to-market for connected industrial products.
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INDUSTRIAL ETHERNET
Real-Time Ethernet Performance for Controllers and Motion Systems
PROFINET, EtherCAT, EtherNet/IP, SERCOS III
Industrial Ethernet forms the backbone of modern automation, connecting controllers, drives, robots, and machines under strict real-time constraints.
IAR supports deterministic execution of industrial Ethernet stacks across MCUs and MPUs, enabling high-performance control and motion applications. With proven compatibility with leading commercial and open-source stacks, IAR helps teams build scalable, real-time Ethernet solutions for factory automation and robotics.
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INDUSTRIAL IOT & INTEROPERABILITY
Secure, Vendor-Neutral Connectivity from Machines to the Cloud
OPC UA, multi-protocol gateways
Industrial systems increasingly require interoperable communication across devices, networks, and higher-level systems.
IAR enables robust Industrial IoT and gateway development by supporting OPC UA and multi-protocol communication on a wide range of architectures. Validated with commercial providers and open-source stacks, IAR allows teams to build secure, flexible, and future-ready industrial connectivity without vendor lock-in.
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FIELDBUS COMMUNICATION
Deterministic Device-Level Communication for Industrial Control
CAN, CANopen, Modbus, IO-Link
Industrial fieldbus communication connects sensors, actuators, and embedded devices where deterministic timing and compact code are critical.
IAR ensures fieldbus protocol stacks execute predictably and efficiently on resource-constrained MCUs. Validated with commercial stacks and vendor SDKs, IAR enables reliable device-level communication with optimized code size, low latency, and long-term maintainability across industrial platforms.
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR
Reducing Safety Risk in Evolving Industrial Applications
Smart Industry fails when safety foundations can’t scale.
In this webinar, IAR shows how a TÜV SÜD-certified IEC 61508 foundation reduces risk, ensures deterministic behavior, and supports the evolution of industrial systems across platforms.
Join us to learn how teams design safety-ready systems that last for decades.
CI/CD for agile industrial development
Panasonic Electric Works needed to balance rapid development with high product quality across its lighting, environmental energy, and industrial solutions businesses. After challenges with open-source CI/CD tooling, the team adopted IAR to establish a scalable and maintainable CI/CD environment, gaining seamless integration with existing development assets, long-term toolchain stability, and reliable support.
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High-quality smart metering with integrated code analysis
Global smart metering leader Landis+Gyr has relied on IAR for many years across a wide range of microcontroller platforms. By integrating IAR C-STAT static analysis directly into the development workflow, engineers detect defects earlier, reduce rework, and lower development cost, supporting reliable, long-lifecycle industrial and energy systems.
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Migrating architectures while ensuring reliability
Display and servo motor manufacturer Futaba adopted IAR for both Arm-based and Renesas microcontrollers. Following supply-chain disruptions, the company diversified its hardware platforms and selected IAR for its architecture flexibility, commercial support, and functional safety capabilities, keeping software quality high while managing platform transitions.
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Accelerating development with model-based design
Schneider Electric develops complex embedded firmware for data center and industrial infrastructure systems. By adopting IAR for state-machine modeling and automatic code generation, the company significantly reduced development time while improving software consistency and maintainability across projects.
Read CaseIAR's Solutions Are TÜV SÜD Certified
As embedded systems grow more complex, functional safety becomes crucial, especially in industries like industrial automation where compliance is mandatory.
IAR functional safety editions are TÜV SÜD-certified, ensuring they meet the necessary standards for developing safety-critical applications. By choosing IAR as your development platform, you eliminate the need to independently evaluate the tool’s development process or conduct your own compliance testing. TÜV SÜD has already handled this, saving you both time and costs, so you can focus on your code and application features.
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Scale development operations with freedom and flexibility, accelerate innovation with code confidence and simplify compliance.
- Architecture- and device-agnostic — not locked to a single toolchain or target
- Cloud-ready — built for enterprise-scale deployment
- Safety-first — functional safety included as standard
- Native on Linux and Windows — the same toolchain across environments
With IAR platform, you get access to everything.
