DSP capable MCU chips powered by new ARM Cortex M7
In the global microcontroller market, ARM Cortex M processor core based microcontrollers takes top spot both by market share as well as growth. It can roughly estimated a 3.2 billion+ ARM Cortex M based microcontroller units shipped in last 12 months, and is expected to be growing in the range of 20%. The good thing about M series is they are offered in four versions which includes M0, M0+, M3, M4. Now the new one added to the series is M7. M7 is codenamed as 'Pelican'.
There are multiple factors driving the increasing speed in growth of ARM Cortex M series. The driving factor is 32-bit Cortex M series consume less power. However this is not so special, there are a lot of proprietary cores which also consume less power than ARM Cortex M series. But the real advantage to the embedded system designer is, they can choose the microcontroller from multiple vendors and uses same code which is written for other ARM Cortex M based microcontroller. ARM Cortex based microcontrollers across different vendors are code compatible, that is another big factor pushing the sales of ARM Cortex M series microcontrollers. The third important factor is broad availability of compilers, IDE, debuggers and other software development tools from third-party vendors. The fourth fact...
There are multiple factors driving the increasing speed in growth of ARM Cortex M series. The driving factor is 32-bit Cortex M series consume less power. However this is not so special, there are a lot of proprietary cores which also consume less power than ARM Cortex M series. But the real advantage to the embedded system designer is, they can choose the microcontroller from multiple vendors and uses same code which is written for other ARM Cortex M based microcontroller. ARM Cortex based microcontrollers across different vendors are code compatible, that is another big factor pushing the sales of ARM Cortex M series microcontrollers. The third important factor is broad availability of compilers, IDE, debuggers and other software development tools from third-party vendors. The fourth fact...
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