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Hi guys,
I'm eager to use the M7 in ASILD and SIL3 applications as it offers our developers a more familiar environment and behaviour compared to the R series, amongst a few other preferential attributes. However I'm yet to see any signs of a company integrating this option into an SoC.
Does anyone know of any companies that are planning to release an IC based on the M7 running in lock-step?
Many thanks
I don't know but I guess somebody must have said they wanted it as I don't imagine it is something that just bolts onto a design easily. As a matter of interest what kind of problems do you have with the R series compared to the M series thanks?.
Hello alowe,
Basically speaking, as far as a company does not announce, we have no means to know whether it will exist. As of today, no companies had announced such a product. I guess that Cortex-M7 product which has the lock-step feature won't appear as a standard product. It might be possible that it was developed as a custom product for automotive areas. If you would like to really adopt such the product, I recommend you to directly ask a IC company.
Best regards,
Yasuhiko Koumoto.
Thank you guys.
My interest stems from our firm having not used Cortex-R previously and we would prefer to stick with a simpler architecture and systems we know well such as the NVIC of a Cortex-M etc. For us this seems like a more natural progression, as there are elements of the Cortex-R that seem less fit-for-purpose.
Hi Alowe,
But as per the general claim R is more powerful and real time but its specific to application anyway. It would be great if you could share your analysis on which you derived the same ?
Regards,
Techguyz