Altium Tasking VX-toolset C compiler for Renesas RH850 automotive microcontroller

Altium has announced an addition to its Tasking C compiler solutions for automotive application development, providing support for RH850 architecture from Renesas Electronics. The RH850 is an automotive microcontroller family offering high performance balanced with low power consumption over a wide and scalable range of products.

The range provides rich functional safety and embedded security features needed for automotive applications. It offers a range of CPU core structures to support high-performance and/or high-reliability requirements. The Tasking VX-toolset supports all currently available RH850 devices.

The toolset is a compiler which incorporates support for the latest MISRA C:2012 guidelines for C programming. This enables developers to select the MISRA rules to enforce and configure MISRA guidelines in accordance with the company’s prescribed rules in order to increase code safety, reliability and maintainability.

The Viper technology used in the compiler ensures compatibility to other Tasking toolsets and eases application migration from other architectures. The Viper compiler provides a caching functionality which saves the compiler’s intermediate results in order to avoid full compilations, enabling short project build times of embedded applications and saving developers both time and cost.