IAR adds new functionality to Embedded Workbench

The technology will start with new functionality in the company's IAR Embedded Workbench and will continue with additional products and solutions as an integrated part of its core technology.

The new functionality in IAR Embedded Workbench works by coupling power consumption directly to the application software, and enables the developer to analyse power consumption and correlate it with program execution.

Using this approach, developers can tune and optimise the application's power profile.

Oscilloscopes are commonly used to display and measure power consumption, but the new functionality helps the developer to actually connect the power consumption to what is happening in the software.

The functionality also reduces the effort required to identify the underlying causes of a power glitch, according to IAR Systems.

The company will start including the technology with new functionality in IAR Embedded Workbench later in 2010.