Global leading embedded development tool supplier IAR and automotive-grade chip leader Jiefa Technology AutoChips jointly announced that IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm now fully supports Jiefa Technology’s automotive-grade MCU AC7870, providing a one-stop service covering development, debugging, and optimization. This powerful toolchain technology empowers the AC7870, accelerating its full-stack intelligent integration in the automotive electronics field and promoting the rapid development of automotive intelligent technology.
Highlights of AC7870
The Jiefa Technology AC7870 is an automotive-grade MCU characterized by multi-core high computing power, high safety, and high real-time performance. With its outstanding performance, it demonstrates strong application potential in the automotive electronics field.
• High Performance: Built-in 6 Cortex-R52 cores, default four cores (dual lock-step cores), also supports three cores (triple lock-step cores) for user configuration. The main frequency reaches up to 360MHz, supports Hypervisor, and meets the performance, safety, and real-time requirements of complex automotive applications. It has a built-in GTM co-processor to handle high real-time IO input/output events.
• High Functional Safety: Equipped with rich functional safety mechanisms, high diagnostic coverage, and can achieve ISO 26262 ASIL-D functional safety level, providing a safety package to assist customers in efficiently developing functional safety products.
• High Information Security: Features an independent information security island, supports a variety of hardware acceleration engines, complies with ISO21434, meets EVITA Full standards, and supports national secret SM2/3/4 algorithms, providing reference information security firmware.
• Rich Resources: Over 12MB of Flash storage, supports seamless silent upgrades, dual Ethernet, multiple CAN and LIN, and has abundant peripheral resources with up to 320 pins, meeting various automotive application needs for storage and peripheral interfaces.
• Rich Software Ecosystem: Compatible with mainstream AUTOSAR solutions, providing ASIL-D level MCAL and configuration tools.
• Wide Application Scenarios: Covers diverse scenario needs including new energy three electrics, intelligent assisted driving, intelligent cockpit, intelligent chassis domain controllers, and regional controllers.
Advantages of IAR Products
As a benchmark enterprise in the global embedded development field, IAR has always adhered to the core principle of “empowering developers to efficiently build safe and reliable embedded systems.” Its flagship development toolchain, IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm, has become the preferred tool for automotive electronics developers. For the high-performance Cortex-R52 core and high safety requirements of the AC7870, IAR provides comprehensive support to help developers quickly realize the development and verification of complex control logic, shortening the product launch cycle.
• Leading Compiler: Deeply optimized compilation for Arm Cortex-R52 cores.
• Powerful Debugger: Paired with the hardware emulator I-jet, supporting SMP and AMP multi-core debugging.
• Code Quality: Integrates static code analysis tool C-STAT and dynamic code analysis tool C-RUN to enhance code quality.
• CI/CD: IAR build tools support automated CI/CD workflows, improving R&D efficiency.
• Functional Safety: Provides TÜV SÜD certified functional safety versions, meeting ISO 26262 ASIL-D level.
Ecological Collaboration, Innovative Development
Jiefa Technology’s Deputy General Manager Xiong Xianfeng stated: “IAR has a deep technical accumulation and rich industry experience in the embedded development field. We are pleased to engage in in-depth cooperation with IAR. The comprehensive support of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm will bring significant convenience and performance improvements to the development and application of Jiefa Technology’s AC7870. Both parties will work hand in hand, leveraging their respective advantages to jointly promote innovation and development in automotive electronics technology, providing customers with higher quality and more reliable automotive electronic products and solutions.”
IAR’s Vice President for the Asia-Pacific region, Kiyo Uemura, stated: “The automotive-grade MCU AC7870 launched by Jiefa Technology, with its multi-core high computing power, high safety, and high real-time characteristics, demonstrates broad application potential in the automotive electronics field. IAR is committed to providing advanced development tools and technical support for embedded developers, and we highly value our cooperation with Jiefa Technology. Leveraging the powerful capabilities of IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm, we are confident in helping Jiefa Technology’s AC7870 realize greater value, accelerating its promotion and implementation in the automotive electronics market, and jointly opening a new chapter in the development of smart vehicles.”
This deepened cooperation between Jiefa Technology and IAR fully reflects complementary advantages and collaborative win-win outcomes. The perfect combination of Jiefa Technology’s AC7870 and IAR’s embedded development toolchain will bring more efficient, reliable, and safe development solutions to the automotive electronics industry, strongly promoting the process of automotive intelligence and connectivity. In the future, both parties will continue to deepen cooperation, explore innovation, jointly address industry challenges, seize development opportunities, and inject new vitality into the automotive electronics industry, creating greater value.
About Jiefa Technology AutoChips
Hefei Jiefa Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as Jiefa Technology) was established in 2013 and is a member enterprise of Beijing Four-Dimensional Map Technology Co., Ltd. (stock code: SZ002405), with R&D or market operation centers in Hefei, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, and Tianjin. Since its establishment, Jiefa Technology has focused on the R&D and design of automotive electronic chips and related systems, with a total of 450 patent applications for automotive-grade chips at home and abroad, and over 170 authorized patents. The company has obtained the Rhine TüV ISO 26262 ASIL-D functional safety process certification, and all chip products comply with AEC-Q100 reliability certification, with multiple products passing ISO 26262 ASIL-B functional safety product certification.
Jiefa Technology adheres to technological innovation as the foundation of its business, with products covering integrated SoCs for cabin parking, intelligent cockpit SoCs, vehicle networking SoCs, in-vehicle infotainment system SoCs, and automotive-grade microcontrollers (MCUs), receiving widespread recognition and adoption from domestic and foreign component manufacturers and complete vehicle manufacturers. Currently, the cumulative shipment of the company’s full series of chips exceeds 300 million units, including 90 million SoC chips and 80 million MCUs. In the future, Jiefa Technology will work with numerous partners to build a leading brand of domestic automotive electronic chips and achieve greater breakthroughs for “Chinese chips.”
For more information, please visit: www.autochips.com.
About IAR
IAR provides world-leading embedded development software and services, helping enterprises develop safe products and lead the future. Since its establishment in 1983, our solutions have supported the development of over 1 million embedded applications worldwide, covering various industries such as automotive, industrial automation, IoT, and medical technology, ensuring high quality, safety, reliability, and efficiency in the development process. We support over 15,000 chips from more than 70 semiconductor partners, dedicated to driving innovation and helping customers succeed.
The company is headquartered in Uppsala, Sweden, with sales subsidiaries and support offices around the world. In China, IAR has established a team of experienced application engineers to provide customers with fast, professional, and localized technical support services, continuously creating maximum value for customers.
For more information, please visit: www.iar.com/zh.
Editor’s Note: IAR, IAR Embedded Workbench, Embedded Trust, Embedded Secure IP, C-Trust, C-SPY, C-RUN, C-STAT, IAR Visual State, I-jet, I-jet Trace, IAR Academy, and the IAR logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of IAR Systems AB. All other product names are trademarks of their respective owners.