Architectures and Processors blog

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…