Arm Community

The ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Community Edition (CE) has been extended to support the community of ARM Embedded Linux users, and it now works on Apple Mac hosts too!  DS-5 Community…

I was asked to contribute a quote for a press release that our friends at Freescale made a few days ago. When I read it I didn't fully appreciate just how tiny their little device is. Or at least I did…

Chinese Version 中文版：CoreMark 和编译器性能CoreMark is quickly gaining traction as the de facto benchmark for CPU performance. It is freely available, easy to compile and run, and returns a single value result…

This is an exciting time for consumers as they anticipate a further step change in their mobile computing experience, and in the supporting infrastructure. To support the launch of the new ARM® Cortex…

Recently I read a post by Steve Leibson that referred a very passionate on-going debate on the "ARM Based Group" on LinkedIn from a few industry veterans about the pros and cons of 8-bit versus…

When I first saw the name of the series from Nordic Semiconductor, namely nRF51, I thought to myself "Oh God! These guys are doing great RF, but still use the good old 8051 processor -- what a shame!"…

Many recent licensees of ARM Cortex-M  are new to the ARM architecture.  For them, a design kit that is tailor-made for Cortex-M processors and delivers a short learning curve, reduced time to market and…

Really, it is a blast from the past. Soon you can get ARM Cortex-M0 microcontrollers in a DIP28 package, along with SOP20, TSSOP20 and TSSOP28 packages.

2012 has been like the last few years: very rich in new ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers as well as collateral and tools making it easier to make the most of them. Here is a summary of the year so far, if…