ARM Cortex M4 MCUs taken to new height of performance

ARM Cortex M4, a power efficient 32-bit processor core with DSP capabilities, which occupy less than a square-mm space on silicon die in some of the advanced nodes, gives chip designers the advantage of space and power efficiency while designing chips for mobile and embedded systems. ST Microelectronics has leveraged both of its chip fabrication capabilities as well as chip design capabilities to come up with a family of microcontroller chips based on ARM Cortex M4 for high performance applications. ST Microelectronics has enhanced the performance ARM Cortex M4 based MCU to operate at 180MHz and deliver 225DMIPS (Dhrystone MIPS) and 608 CoreMark (EEMBC Caremark benchmark) scores using industry-standard performance metrics by using its adaptive real-time accelerator (ART Accelerator) allowing zero-wait execution from Flash. This is the highest performance ARM Cortex M4 based MCU presently available in the market. STM32F429/439 series offer SDRAM memory interface and has on-chip LCD Controller to support TFT displays of resolution 800*600. The final physical chip size measuring 3x3mm is also small enough to support many handheld portable systems. What is more interesting than the technology is the range of applications this device can be used for. STM32F439 can be used as coprocessor in advanced smart phones to handle motion data from the accelerometer, gyroscope,...