IAR Systems has announced wide support for ARM Cortex-R4 processor in version 5.40 of IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM. IAR Embedded Workbench is a set of development tools for embedded applications. The package includes an editor, project management tools, a C and C++ compiler that generates optimised code for the combined ARM/Thumb-2 instruction set, a C-SPY simulator as well as run-time libraries, relocating assembler, linker and librarian tools. The compiler can check against the rules of MISRA C (MISRA C:2004) software development standard as established by the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association. An evaluation edition of IAR PowerPac RTOS, file system, USB stack and a TCP/IP stack bundle is included within the package. RTOS plug-ins are available from the company.