Achieving New Levels of Performance and Reduced Power Consumption in MCU Designs with ARM Cortex-M

26 March 2009

Venue: On Demand
Location: Web

The ARM^® Cortex™-M processor family offers the lowest power consumption of the ARM Cortex processor product range while boasting high performance numbers. This combination enables designers to utilize the inherent values of a 32 bit architecture at the cost of an 8-bit design. MCU and gate-count sensitive mixed-signal markets will benefit from the lowest system cost provided by the unique combination of ultra-low gate count, small code footprint and advanced libraries. Low-power operation of the Cortex-M processor family is further enhanced by implementation on TSMC 180ULL embedded Flash process, using ARM Ultra High Density Standard Cell Libraries, Power Management Kit (PMK), and Low-Power memory instances specially tuned for ARM processors, delivered in best-in-class EDA packages. The ARM Cortex-M processors continue to set new standards in ultra-low power MCU designs.

During this seminar we will review:

• ARM Cortex-M processor architecture and inherent benefits
• Advantages of utilizing ARM integrated Physical IP for best-in-class CPU implementation
• Design consideration and challenges in designing 32-bit MCUs