RELEASE NOTES

for IAR Embedded Workbench for Freescale HCS12 version 3.20.3

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 3.20.3

• Better optimization on bit-operations in the compiler

Version 3.20.2

• Support for new devices
  Hardware debug support for these new devices has been added.

  • MC9S12XEP100
  • MC9S12XEP768
  • MC9S12XDP512
  • MC9S12XDT512
  • MC9S12XDT384
  • MC9S12XDT256
  • MC9S12GA240
  • MC9S12GA192
  • MC9S12G128
  • MC9S12G64

Version 3.20

• Information Center
  A web-based navigation system that gives easy access to tutorials, product documentation and example projects. Choose Help>Information Center to display the Information Center.

• Debugging multiple images
  C-SPY can now debug several independently built images during one debug session.Choose Project options>Debugger>Images to specify the location of the images to be downloaded in addition to the current application. There is also a new debugger window called Images where you select which application debug information shall be displayed for.

• visualSTATE build integration
  visualSTATE design projects can now be included in an IAR Embedded Workbench project. This enables the code generation facility of visualSTATE to be run automatically when needed as part of the normal IAR Embedded Workbench build chain.

• 64-bit OS support
  The debugger drivers for P&E USB Multilink and, P&E Cyclone PRO have been updated to support 64-bit versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

• MISRA C:2004 support
  IAR Embedded Workbench now supports automatic checking of source code for conformance to the MISRA-C:2004 standard.

• Support for new devices
  Hardware debug support for these new devices has been added

  • MC9S12HZ256
  • MC9S12HZ128
  • MC9S12HZ64
  • MC9S12HN64
  • MC9S12P128
  • MC9S12P96
  • MC9S12P64
  • MC9S12P32
  • MC9S12HY64

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.

• Windows Vista
  

  Windows Vista has a new security mechanism called UAC (User Access Control). Disabling UAC will make Vista work more like XP, 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 Vista to C:\Users\<user name>\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.

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