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…
Just one word...Plastics
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…
- over 3 years ago
- System
- Embedded blog
From “Which Cortex-M processor” to “Which C compiler”
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…
- over 6 years ago
- Processors
- Processors blog
The un'NXP'ected LPC800
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…
- over 6 years ago
- Processors
- Processors blog
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…
- over 6 years ago
- Processors
- Processors blog
ARM Cortex-M0+: More than a low-power processor
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…
- over 6 years ago
- Processors
- Processors blog
- over 6 years ago
- Processors
- Processors blog
Five things you may not know about ARM Cortex-M
Chinese Version 中文版 [原创翻译]关于Cortex-M你可能不了解的5件事
1 - Industry standard
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…
- over 5 years ago
- Processors
- Processors blog