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  • MCU Development - Endianness - Big Endian

    For those of ARM's customers, who design microcontrollers, I would like to recommend a Big Endian implementation (or at least an option to select Big Endian).

    This is due to that I have designs that need to work with Big Endian data.

    Big Endian is the…

  • Honey, SuVolta Deeply Depleted My Cortex-M0 Power!

    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…

  • ARM Cortex-M0 Swiftly Rides the Airwaves

    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!". Fortunately, I was misled by the family naming, and…

  • Smart Sensors - Why Sensors need Intelligence?

    Smart sensors are far from a myth, it is already used in million of devices (e.g. your mobile phone might already contain several smart sensors).

    Traditionally a number of smart sensors are designed with custom design digital logic (e.g. Finite State…

    • Smart Sensors - Why sensors need intelligence.pdf