STMicroelectronics and IAR Systems yesterday announced development tool support for ST’s SPEAr family of microprocessors (MPUs). The SPEAr family is positioned by ST as 32-bit ARM ARM926EJ-S or Cortex-A9-based devices for cost-sensitive applications requiring significant processing and connectivity capabilities at lower power consumption.
IAR Systems has added support for SPEAr processors in its IAR Embedded Workbench, a development tool for building and debugging embedded applications. Selected customers have already started designing software for SPEAr processors using this tool, according to ST.