In part 1 of this blog, I outlined the thought process behind the Elba program. Here I'll look at the implementation decisions for the project.In ARM there are various stages of maturity of a new processor…
Wouldn't it be interesting if we... - Giving Birth to "Elba"
"Wouldn't it be interesting if we....". That's the way many step changes have started in ARM. In the next four blogs I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you about just one of those, we called it…
ARM Cortex-R processor. What is it good for?
The answer is functional safety applications. At least, that's where TI's ARM® Cortex™-R cores are utilized - in high performance, real-time microcontrollers. As many real-time…
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…
The Atmel SAM D20 family - The inside story
A couple of weeks ago Atmel launched the SAM D20 family of products with a comprehensive roll-out of product information, including one of the most impressive of uses that I have seen in a while of all…
Cortex-M0+ a year after: smaller, thriftier and smarter!
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…
How ARM Compiler detects stack overflows or malicious tampering
Stack buffer overflows are an all too common failure mode in embedded systems where a program accidentally, or maliciously, overwrites fixed-length buffers on the call stack resulting in loss of system…
Combining large and small compute engines - ARM Cortex-A7
Today the ARM Cortex-A7 processor was announced...the power of big.Little processing is finally realized!
I drive a Honda Fit, mainly for the fuel efficiency, on a 20 mile city street commute. Sometimes…
Energy Efficiency and Air Conditioning - Part 2: ARM Cortex-A7
ARM Cortex-A7 processor...It's all about right-sized equipment.
In Part 1 of this blog we saw how right-sizing of air conditioning is vitally important because it performs three different functions…