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ARM Everywhere at EW 2015: From Lowest Power MCUs to Highest Performance 64-bit SBCs

Lori Kate Smith
Lori Kate Smith
February 28, 2015

Although the theme of EW was Internet of Things, there was so much to see at Embedded World (EW).  I was impressed with the breadth of embedded computing technologies.   If you are interested in my morning EW adventures, please check out my first Embedded World blog.  My next journey was to check out some of the Partners at EW over Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.  Given the very full 5 halls, I couldn’t cover too much!

Starting at the smallest #MCU, Microchip announced ATSAMDA01 a new family of ARM Cortex-M0+ devices focused on the automotive Atmel DA1 M0+.JPGsegment, including in-car HMI.  It is the first automotive-qualified product family.  artiebeavis shares more in his blog Atmel launches automotive grade ARM Cortex-M0+-based MCUs.

Moving to high performance MCUs, Atmel also demoed their SAM S70 and E70 based on the Cortex-M7. It’s reached 1500 CoreMarks, 645 DMIPS at 300 MHz.  It has up to 2 Mbyte of Flash with extensive high-speed communication links.  Learn more from the video with Atmel below.

Atmel's Application Bases Featuring ARM Cortex-M7 (EMB 2015) - YouTube

The Cortex-M7 is highly versatile and can be configured to meet the needs of many different markets.  Freescale new KV5x MCU family is focused on motor control and power conversion applications.  Freescale shared in this video the family's processing performance and its dedicated peripherals.

Freescale Kinetis KV5 Family (EMB 2015) - YouTube


Single Board Computing (SBC) continues to gain momentum.  Freescale also announced the new i.MX 6SoloX based on both the Cortex-A9 and the Cortex-M4.  The flexibility of the two cores allows the Cortex-M4 to run an RTOS while the Cortex-A9 runs Linux.  Both cores communicate with each other but since they don’t share the same OS, it makes for a convenient, flexible and secure environment.  This video shares more about some of the supporting Freescale ecosystem and board vendors.


Perhaps one of the best examples of the breadth of ARM technology in one system, Xilinx announced their UltraScale+ MPSoC family of FPGAs.
As this block diagram demonstrates, this family has four Cortex-A53 processors, two Cortex-R5 processors and an ARM Mali-400 GPU.  There was a very compelling demo showing real-time video processing.  The system also supports Android.  A whole lot of ARM IP love in 64-bit.  Gain more insights from the video below.

Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC (EMB 20105) - YouTube

It was quite an experience for me for my first Embedded World.  I thought it felt really busy and EW’s numbers prove it – all-time highs for the show.  While I expected the focus on IoT, I was really excited to see the breadth of ARM technology at the show from the lowest power MCU to a high-performance 64-bit system.

Looking for more about ARM at Embedded World?  Review my tweets @lorikate and the ARM Embedded World video playlist.

Stay tuned as this week I’m at MWC 2015.  No rest for the weary!

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  • Lori Kate Smith
    Lori Kate Smith over 10 years ago

    Two more compelling videos from EW were from the qualcomm stand.

    If you love seeing where technology lands in end devices check out the first video based on Qualcomm embedded computing solutions.  It may be hard to see, but the glass-free 3D TV in their booth was amazing up close.

    In the second video, you can learn about the breadth of applications that use Qualcomm embedded offerings and see multiple examples in action from their technology providers.  Also learn why Qualcomm is in Embedded and how they choose the SoC platforms they do to be used in embedded.  Moreover, Tia Cassett highlights the recent collaboration with Arrow. Both interviews are from philburr. I hope that you enjoy them.

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  • Sylvie Boube-Politano
    Sylvie Boube-Politano over 10 years ago

    at the ST booth we also discussed Cortex-M7 and STM32 F7 recently launched  which developments are promising for driving paths of reference in the IoT world,we also presented a unique Gateway with apps store still based on Cortex-M7

    and launched our new highly performant ultra low power family STM32L4

    much more of course on our crowded stand ... to be reported in another story to be published  soon

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