RELEASE NOTES

for IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM version 7.60.2

Read about the latest features, new device support, and program corrections in the release notes.

• Highlights
• Important information
• Release notes for individual components
• Product packages
• Installation and license activation

Highlights

Version 7.60.1

• Extended functionality in C-STAT
  The static analysis tool C-STAT has been extended with approximately 150 new checks including 90 new MISRA C:2012 checks and two new packages of checks. There are also new options to enable or disable the false-positives elimination phase of the analysis and to exclude files from the analysis. C-STAT message suppression can now be controlled by directives placed in comments in the source files. For more information see the release notes for the compiler.

• Flash breakpoints
  Flash breakpoints adds an unlimited number of breakpoints for selected Cortex-M devices when using the I-jet debug probe. A flash breakpoint must be set explicitly from the context menu. To find out whether flash breakpoints are supported for your device, see the semiconductor vendor specific device lists below.

• TI MSP-FET support
  The IAR C-SPY Debugger now supports the TI MSP-FET debug probe.

• cJTAG support
  The IAR C-SPY Debugger now supports the cJTAG interface on the TI connectivity devices CC13xx/2538/26xx when using the I-jet debug probe.

• SWO support for TI XDS110
  The IAR C-SPY Debugger now supports SWO trace data from the TI XDS110 debug probe.

Device support

• New device support

  Nuvoton	ISD9361VRI Mini58FDE Mini58LDE Mini58TDE Mini58ZDE
  NXP	MCIMX6DP MCIMX6QP MCIMX7D3 MCIMX7D5 MCIMX7D7 MCIMX7S3 MCIMX7S5 PN7360AU-C3-00 PN7362AU-C3-00 PN7462AU-C3-00
  Renesas	R7S721030 R7S721031

• Device support

  ActiveSemi	AmbiqMicro	AnalogDevices	Atmel	Broadcom
  Cirrus	Cypress	Ember	Epson	Faraday
  Fujitsu	Hilscher	Holtek	Infineon	Intel
  LinearTechnology	Marvell	Maxim	Microchip	Micronas
  Microsemi	Mitsubishi	NetSilicon	NordicSemiconductor	Nuvoton
  NXP	OKI	ONSemiconductor	Renesas	Samsung
  SiliconLabs	Socle	Sonix	STMicroelectronics	TexasInstruments
  Toshiba	Xilinx

• Example projects
  Over 8400 example projects for various evaluation boards, are included in the product installation, see the Information Center.

Important information

• Upgrade information
• Before you install
  

  To avoid any problems, do not install this release in a directory where you have previously installed any older version of IAR Embedded Workbench. It is recommended that you either uninstall an earlier product, or install this release in a separate directory. As before, however, it is possible to install different products, all using the same version of the main application, in the same root directory.

• License renewal
  

  The upgrade to this version might require a license renewal. This is performed by starting the IAR License Manager and selecting License>Check for License Renewal.
  Note, if you have a network license, this must be performed on the license server.

• Microsoft Windows
  

  Windows Vista and newer operating systems have a security mechanism called UAC (User Access Control). Disabling UAC will automatically grant you permission when a task requires administrative rights but this is not recommended because it will reduce the security of the computer. It is not necessary to run the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE as an administrator. However, if you are not, modifications to the installed product tree in C:\Program Files\IAR Systems might not work as intended and could give unexpected results. One example is opening and building projects directly from the installed product tree. The build will succeed, but the resulting files (object, list, ...) will not appear where expected. Instead all output files will be redirected by the OS to C:\Users\\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\IAR Systems. To avoid this, the preferred way is to copy the examples to a location outside Program Files, either manually or automatically by opening them via the IAR Information Center.

• Migration

• The debugger flash loader mechanism was changed in version 5.40. If your project uses a default flash loader with no extra parameters, no migration work is needed.
  If the debugger detects that your project uses a non-default flash loader or that it uses extra parameters, it will revert to the default flash loader for your device. In addition a .board file will be created in the project directory. If necessary the .board file can be edited and used by manually overriding the default flash loader with this project-specific .board file.

• If you are migrating from version 4.x to this version, we recommend that you read the ARM IAR Embedded Workbench Migration Guide.

• Object format
  

  The compiler, assembler, linker and debugger object format is based on the ARM ABI ELF/DWARF standard version 2.08. For the standard definition, see the ARM Application Binary Interface.

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