Memories are increasingly occupying more area in today’s SoCs. So, it is imperative to have an early estimate of the total power consumed by the memories. Memory power consumption can be divided into two…

This document gives 10 tips on how best to use the FPU on the Arm Cortex-M4 processor.

A question that I am asked many times is – what is the fundamental difference between the high efficiency, mid range and the high performance application processors in the ARM Cortex family? The simple…

1 - Fast adoption 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…

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) for the ARM® Cortex®-A9 processor, ported from the Keil® RTX RTOS for Cortex-M series of processors. In this blog, I’d…

This is the third of three blogs I've written around the announcement of the new ARMv8-R architecture for real-time embedded processors.  Simon Craske, our Embedded Processor Architect, and myself will…

Abstract The complex task of selecting which processor core to license can be simplified by using a standard check list approach to evaluate all relevant criteria. This white paper goes through such a…

You might have come across some pieces I've written recently on the ARMv7 architecture.Navigating the Cortex MazeARMv7-A - Power to the PeopleARMv6-M vs ARMv7-M - Unpacking the MicrocontrollersI've…

In recent articles, I’ve overviewed the ARMv7 architecture and then looked in more detail at ARMv7-A (ARMv7-A - Power to the People) and ARMv6-M/ARMv7-M (ARMv6-M vs ARMv7-M - Unpacking the Micro…