Architectures and Processors blog

"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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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!"…

I take a deeper look at NXP's mini-tiny-LPC800. With NXP being one of our lead-partners on the ARM Cortex-M0+, and also previously on the Cortex-M0, I was really excited to see what they came up.

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…

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…

The NEON™ Programmer's Guide provides information about how to use the ARM Advanced SIMD instructions to improve the performance of intensive data processing applications running on ARM processors. Read…