ARM’s TrustZone security has been key to its higher-end solutions like the Cortex-A series, but it is now part of the Cortex-M with the advent of the ARMv8-M microcontroller architecture (Fig. 1). The ...

2016 was a great year for Open Hardware. The Open Source Hardware Association released their certification program, and late in the year, a few silicon wizards met in Mountain View to show off the ...

MUNICH, Germany-- November 14, 2006--Broadening customer access to one of the industry’s most popular 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) architectures, Freescale Semiconductor (NYSE:FSL) (NYSE:FSL.B) has ...

Portsmouth, England – April 30, 2009 – ARM is forecast to pass Power Architecture and x86 to become the leading 32-bit microcontroller and embedded microprocessor architecture in 2011, according ...

Editor's Note: View the Fundamentals of Microcontrollers to catch up on the architectural differences, selection, set up and programming of today's micros. To work through the thicket of choices, it's ...

The automotive electronics industry continues to expand its use of 8-bit and 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs). With the MCU being the cornerstone of electronic control modules (ECMs), from safety ...

ARM is the acronym for Advanced RISC Machine, an UK based company, which has pioneered the growth of RISC processor Architecture. What is RISC? RISC stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer. RISC ...

ARM Cortex processor core is based on ARM RISC processor architecture version called ARMv7. The assembly language instruction set and other details of this ARM architecture is available for download ...

For years it was a given that it was impossible to run a Linux based operating system on a less powerful computer whose architecture lacked a memory management unit. There were projects such as ...

Selecting the right microcontroller for a product can be a daunting task. Not only are there a number of technical features to consider, there are also business case issues such as cost and lead-times ...