Arm Community blogs

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…

GNU Tools for ARM embedded processors, or GCC ARM Embedded for short, version 4.7 is now available.

The ARM Cortex-A7 processor and big.LITTLE processing announcement are game changers for the "always on' home networking and consumer applications. Developers can now choose the right size processor for…

This week sees the launch on the Cortex-M0+ processor-based Freescale Kinetis L family of MCUs just two months after the official launch of this latest addition to the Cortex-M processor series. The…