On July 22, 2025, the member of the Shanghai Pudong Automotive Electronics Innovation and Intelligence Industry Alliance—automotive-grade chip company Jiefa Technology (AutoChips) and embedded development tool supplier IAR jointly announced that the IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm has fully supported 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 implementation in the automotive electronics field and promoting the rapid development of automotive intelligent technology.
Highlights of the AC7870 Product
The Jiefa Technology AC7870 is an automotive-grade MCU featuring multi-core high computing power, high safety, and high real-time performance, showcasing strong application potential in the automotive electronics field due to its outstanding performance.
· High Performance: It is equipped with 6 Cortex-R52 cores, with a default of four cores (dual-lockstep cores), and also supports three cores (triple-lockstep cores) for user configuration. The main frequency can reach up to 360MHz, supporting Hypervisor, meeting the performance, safety, and real-time requirements of complex automotive applications. It has a built-in GTM coprocessor to handle high real-time IO input/output events.
· High Functional Safety: It has a rich set of functional safety mechanisms, with high diagnostic coverage, and the product’s functional safety level can reach ISO 26262 ASIL-D, providing a safety package to assist customers in efficiently developing functional safety products.
· High Information Security: It has an independent information security island, supports a rich set of hardware acceleration engines, complies with ISO21434, meets the EVITA Full standard, and supports national secret SM2/3/4 algorithms, providing reference information security firmware.
· Rich Resources: It has over 12MB of Flash storage, supports seamless silent upgrades, supports dual Ethernet, multiple CAN and LIN, and has abundant peripheral resources with up to 320 pins, meeting various automotive application requirements for storage and peripheral interfaces.
· Rich Software Ecosystem: It is compatible with mainstream AUTOSAR solutions and can provide MCAL and configuration tools that meet ASIL-D level.
· Wide Application Scenarios: It covers diverse scenario requirements 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, assisting developers in quickly realizing the development and verification of complex control logic, shortening the product launch cycle.
· Leading Compiler: Deep compilation optimization for the Arm Cortex-R52 core.
· Powerful Debugger: Paired with the hardware emulator I-jet, supporting SMP and AMP multi-core debugging.
· Code Quality: Integrated 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 Synergy, 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, and we are very 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, fully leveraging their respective advantages to jointly promote the innovation and development of automotive electronics technology, providing customers with higher quality and more reliable automotive electronic products and solutions.”
IAR Asia Pacific Vice President 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 performance, shows broad application potential in the automotive electronics field. IAR has always been committed to providing advanced development tools and technical support for embedded developers, and we highly value our cooperation with Jiefa Technology. Relying on 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 win-win collaboration. 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.
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