In my presentation at ARM TechCon 2013 last week "ARM Cortex-M for Beginners", someone asked a question of “Is there any advice for getting the best performance? Which C compiler to use?
This is a very interesting question. One page of…
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 names arise trying to replace it, there is the undeniable…
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 to your "min" with just a couple of additional…
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 close partnership between ARM and Freescale, one of…
The Cortex-M0+ processor was announced in March 2012, with two lead partners, namelyFreescale and NXP, who went public with their plans to release MCUs based on this new processor. These plans became reality shortly afterwards with…
ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers are becoming the defacto standard for the next generation of low power control applications.This paper looks at the various criteria to be considered when selecting a processor for low power control applications, and…