IAR fully supports Flagchip's automotive-grade MCUs to build smart and safe future cars

Shanghai, China, October 18, 2024 - With the rapid development of global automotive electronics, IAR and Suzhou QiXinMicro Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "QiXinMicro") jointly announced an exciting collaboration - IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm 9.60.2 version now fully supports QiXinMicro automotive-grade MCUs, providing the automotive industry with more efficient, safer and smarter development solutions.

As a leader in the field of automotive-grade MCUs in China, Qixin Micro focuses on creating high-performance, high-functional safety MCU solutions to meet the growing needs of the automotive market. The company's core team is the only local team in China with complete 8/16/32-bit automotive-grade MCU development capabilities, and is committed to providing high-computing power, functional safety-compliant automotive-grade MCUs, and all products have passed automotive-grade AEC-Q100 and other rigorous reliability tests.

QiXinMicro's main products include the FC4150 series that meets the functional safety ASIL-B standard, and the FC7300 and FC7240 series that meet the functional safety ASIL-D standard. The FC4150 series has been mass-produced as early as 2023 and has been used in many OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. In May 2024, the FC7300 series entered the large-scale mass production stage, with the advantages of multi-core, high computing power and high functional safety level. The FC7300 and FC7240 series are widely used in key systems such as domain controllers, electric drives, BMS, EPS, etc., and have now started cooperative testing with OEMs such as Geely, GAC, Changan, and BYD. QiXin Micro is one of the few domestic manufacturers that can mass-produce multi-core, high-computing-power automotive-grade MCUs that meet the ASIL-D functional safety level.

If you want to do your work well, you must first sharpen your tools! IAR Embedded Workbench has always been a powerful tool for embedded software development in the automotive field. It not only includes leading compilers and build tools, but also provides powerful code analysis tools C-STAT and C-RUN, and is equipped with a powerful I-jet emulator to support SMP and AMP multi-core debugging. For applications with functional safety requirements, IAR provides a functional safety version certified by TÜV SÜD that complies with functional safety standards such as ISO 26262 and IEC 61508. Using these certified tools can help companies accelerate the development and certification of functional safety products, improve product safety, meet industry requirements, and enhance market competitiveness. This complete set of tools can significantly improve development efficiency, optimize development processes, and reduce costs and risks.

Liu Yifeng, COO of Qixin Micro Said: "IAR tool chain meets the automotive industry's demand for high-performance and high-reliability development tools. The latest version of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm fully supports FC4150/FC7240/FC7300 automotive MCU products, and the close cooperation between the two parties can provide strong support for end users, especially for multi-core applications and ASIL-D functional safety, fully enabling Qixin Micro's automotive-grade MCU product application solutions to be better implemented."

Kiyo Uemura, Vice President of IAR Asia Pacific, also expressed his expectations for the cooperation: "As automotive electronic and electrical architectures become increasingly complex, functional safety has become a top priority. Collaborating with companies like QiXin Micro that focus on high functional safety MCUs is an important step for us to promote the automotive industry towards intelligence and safety. By combining IAR's powerful tools with QiXin Micro's advanced automotive-grade MCUs, we can bring faster and more reliable development processes to automakers and suppliers, helping the entire industry to move forward."

In order to let users better understand the powerful features of Flagsin Micro's automotive-grade MCU and IAR tools, we will hold a webinar at the end of October. The seminar will introduce the technical specifications and functional safety standards of Flagsin Micro's automotive-grade MCU, and demonstrate the advantages of IAR Embedded Workbench in multi-core development. In addition, we will share successful cooperation cases and the latest industry trends, demonstrate the SDK/MCAL sample project and multi-core debugging process of the FC7300 development board on site, and provide opportunities to interact with experts to answer specific questions . You are welcome to sign up for this seminar. You can click here to sign up directly, or follow Flagsin Micro and IAR's WeChat public accounts to obtain meeting and registration information. Looking forward to your participation!