ARM Cortex™-M0 Workshop for Analog Mixed Signal Designs

27 May 2010

Venue: ARM , Bâtiment Promopole, 12 avenue des Près, 78180 Montigny Le Bretonneux
Location: Paris, France

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ARM is pleased to announce an innovative free workshop based around the world’s smallest 32bit processors, the ARM Cortex-M0.

In this full day of talks you will gain an in depth understanding of the Cortex-M0 hardware architecture, implementation configurability and debug capabilities.

The workshop will then describe the software development environment and the programmers view of this innovative processor. Including a processor subsystem with a mixed signal design is relatively new innovation as signal conditioning at source becomes more important along with demands for multiple communication standards support, we will discuss the elements of such a subsystem and the merits of replacing a state machine with a processor. When designing for low power the physical implementation has great importance and we will discuss the usage of ARM physical design libraries to enable low power design.

Cadence, our Mixed Signal EDA design flow partner, will present some elements of their EDA flow when using a modern processor in tandem with analog design plus they will discuss a recent chip development based around Cortex-M0. Power, performance and area are key benchmark statistics when evaluating a processor’s suitability for an application and we will present some of the latest output from our developments teams in this area along with software benchmarking results. Finally an ARM partner will give a brief overview of their experiences using a Cortex-M0 processor in their mixed signal chip design.

We anticipate this to be a popular workshop so we recommend that you register your interest as soon as possible to ensure that you receive your invitation to this event.

• 08:30 Registration / Coffee / Croissants
• 09:00 ARM – Introduction to our company and products
• 09:30 Processor detailed technical review
• 10:15 Programmer's Model for Software Development
• 11:00 BREAK
• 11:30 System Design, state machine replacement and prototyping
• 12:15 Physical Implementation
• 13:00 LUNCH
• 14:00 Cadence
  • Using Cortex-M0 in a Analog Mixed Signal design Flow
  • ChipEstimate a processor integration example
  • Overview of Cortex- M0 test chip results
• 15:00 Power Performance Area and Benchmarking Results
• 15:30 BREAK
• 16:00 Partnering for Design Success
• 16:30 Conclusion and Prize Draw
• 16:45 END