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In the previous three blogs (Parts 1, 2 and 3) I've outlined the background and key decisions involved in the development and implementation of the Elba testchip.  Now we'll look at the final steps taken…

In part 1 of this blog, I outlined the thought process behind the Elba program. Here I'll look at the implementation decisions for the project.In ARM there are various stages of maturity of a new processor…

"Wouldn't it be interesting if we....". That's the way many step changes have started in ARM.  In the next four blogs I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you about just one of those, we called it…

The answer is functional safety applications.  At least, that's where TI's ARM® Cortex™-R cores are utilized - in high performance, real-time microcontrollers. As many real-time…

A wide variety of applications will be impacted by the massive trend which is broadly named as the "Internet of Things" (IoT). Even if some may consider this term as being overused, and newer marketing…

A couple of weeks ago Atmel launched the SAM D20 family of products with a comprehensive roll-out of product information, including one of the most impressive of uses that I have seen in a while of all…

As usual it happened late on Friday afternoon. A couple of weeks ago a message arrived in my inbox from one of our latest ARM® Cortex™-M0+ partners: "We're using 90LP and a similar configuration…

Stack buffer overflows are an all too common failure mode in embedded systems where a program accidentally, or maliciously, overwrites fixed-length buffers on the call stack resulting in loss of system…

Today the ARM Cortex-A7 processor was announced...the power of big.Little processing is finally realized! I drive a Honda Fit, mainly for the fuel efficiency, on a 20 mile city street commute. Sometimes…

ARM Cortex-A7 processor...It's all about right-sized equipment. In Part 1 of this blog we saw how right-sizing of air conditioning is vitally important because it performs three different functions…

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…

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…