Press Release

February 8, 2002

IAR Systems and OSE Systems, an Enea company, announce new cooperative agreement to benefit mutual customers

Cooperation Includes Technology Innovation and Integration of Tools

Uppsala, Sweden and San Jose, CA – February 5, 2002 – IAR Systems, the designer of software development tools for embedded microcontrollers, and OSE Systems, a leading provider of Real-Time Operating Systems, Software Components and Development Tools for Embedded Systems, today announced a new cooperative agreement to jointly support their common customers with a full range of real-time solutions for embedded applications. The newly announced cooperative agreement will focus on the most important areas of technology for mutual customers in order to increase real-time capabilities and connectivity of applications developed with software tools from both manufacturers.

IAR and OSE started their cooperation in 2000 to integrate the Enea OSE Epsilon in the IAR Embedded Workbench for NEC V850, which is based on IAR’s new technology platform. The further cooperative project will focus on ARM and NSC CR16C processors, but will then continue to include the many other processors that are mutually supported by IAR and OSE. Cooperative efforts will include, but not be limited to tighter integration of the tools for development and debugging ease, optimization for performance, and optimization for resource utilization.

“Both IAR and OSE are well known for high quality, reliable tools that are designed specifically for embedded developers. This joint effort underlines our commitment with partnerships to bring the benefits of the real-time capabilities to the customers,” said Mats Ullström, Product Manager of IAR Embedded Workbench at IAR.

“We are pleased to work with IAR to help provide powerful tools solutions to our customers,” said Anders Flodin, Director of Strategic Alliances at OSE Systems. “When IAR launched their tool chain support for ARM it was natural to invite them into our partner program".

About IAR Systems
By focusing on the embedded systems industry, IAR Systems has reached the position of leading supplier of software development tools for embedded microcontrollers. Since the company was founded in 1983, IAR has worked in close cooperation with the world’s major chip manufacturers to develop a wide range of programming tools supporting a large number of chip architectures. The tools today consist of highly efficient C and EC++ compilers in the IAR Embedded Workbench™ development environment, the device driver wizard IAR MakeApp™ for graphical configuration and initialization of the chip and creation of complete device drivers and the IAR visualSTATE® graphic programming tool with a patented technology to generate validated and small production-ready code. IAR Systems also provides a total solution for Bluetooth™ protocol stacks and applications, from development of Bluetooth devices to qualification. IAR Design Services injects engineering expertise and experience into embedded system projects. It contributes to IAR’s mission to reduce the development time for embedded systems and accelerate time-to-market. IAR Systems has offices in the US, UK, Japan, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. More information is available at www.iar.com.

For further information, please contact:
Mats Ullström
Product Manager IAR Embedded Workbench
mats.ullstrom@iar.se
Phone no: +46 18 16 78 00

IAR Embedded Workbench, IAR C-SPY, IAR MakeApp and IAR visualSTATE are trademarks owned by IAR Systems.

The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., U.S.A. and licensed to IAR Systems AB. All other product names are trademarks of their respective companies.

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