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Need an ARM-based 32-bit microcontroller? There’s more than a few full houses...
When 17 microcontroller vendors pick your processor architecture, you have a right to sing “Something’s happening here.” Alban Rampon of ARM just published a blog entry titled “ARM Cortex-M—How could...
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Would you like some ARM Cortex-A15 resources to peruse?
Thanks to LinkedIn ARM Based Group community manager Stephan Cadene, we’ve got several pointers to useful documents describing many aspects of the ARM Cortex-A15 processor core. This is all in...
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Want to know the secrets of implementing an ARM Cortex-A15 in an advanced...
ARM and Cadence have just announced the tape out of the industry’s first 20nm design based on the ARM Cortex-A15 MPCore processor. The test chip targets TSMC’s 20nm process and it was jointly developed...
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TI and Brookstone release $229.99 Picoprojector for Apple iPhone 4/4S
The new $229.99 picoprojector just announced by TI and Brookstone represents a real tour de force in System Realization. It combines a TI DLP (digital light processing) Pico light engine, video...
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Playing poker with applications processors: Can two ARM Cortex-A15 cores beat...
One maxim in the multicore biz is that more (processor cores) is better. Is that really true? All the time? Two ARM Cortex-A15 processor cores in a TI OMAP 5 processor outperform four ARM Cortex-A9...
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ISQED: Why does a trailing-edge digital IC process = a leading-edge analog IC...
“What can you do with bits?” asked Dr. Venu Menon, VP of Analog Technology Development at Texas Instruments at the beginning of his keynote talk at last week’s ISQED. Then he answered his own question:...
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Heterogeneous SoC design gets its own foundation backed by heavy hitters....
I am an unabashed advocate of heterogeneous SoC design. Have been for decades. It’s a system-level design approach that lacks the elegance and academic symmetry of homogeneous processing in exchange...
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If Aladdin’s Genie lived in a Computer-on-Module, it might look like the...
One of the funniest lines in the 1992 animated Disney movie “Aladdin” is when the frenetic blue Genie, voiced by the incredible Robin Williams, describes his situation: “PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS;...
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TI Stellaris LaunchPad eval board features ARM Cortex-M4F. Intro price:...
Texas Instruments’ Stellaris LM4F120H5QRC microcontroller is based on an 80MHz copy of the ARM Cortex-M4F processor core with an integrated single-precision floating-point unit. It also includes...
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Would you like a guide to several new microcontrollers based on the ARM...
Alban Rampon has just published a guide to many new developments surrounding the ARM Cortex-M series of microcontroller cores. The guide includes a discussion of Freescale Kinetis L microcontrollers...
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