CubeSats are miniaturized satellites in a 10cm cube form-factor that are becoming enormously popular due to the benefits of standardization. The standards were originally driven by academia but have now been widely adopted for commercial and government…
Electronics packaging technology has moved on a bit since that classic line about ‘plastics’ was delivered in The Graduate movie, 50 years ago. Plastic packages are now capable of operating comfortably at 200˚C and there is a now a willingness from some…
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…
The busy time of Electronica and ARM Technology Symposia is now behind us, and I finally get the opportunity to have a deeper look the latest release of NXP: their mini-tiny-LPC800. NXP being one of our lead-partners on the ARM Cortex-M0+, and also previously…
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…
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…
Chinese Version 中文版 [原创翻译]关于Cortex-M你可能不了解的5件事
ARM Cortex-M processors are a global microcontroller standard, having been licensed to over 40 ARM partners including leading vendors such as Freescale, NXP, STMicroelectronics, Texas…