22 April 2008

Luminary Micro Takes Award For ARM Cortex-M3 Based MCU

Luminary Micro, an ARM Connected Community member, has taken the 2008 Global Frost & Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company Award for its entrepreneurial strategy in the microcontroller market.

Each year Frost & Sullivan presents this Award to a small company that demonstrates superior entrepreneurial ability in its industry during the research period. The Award signifies the company's identification of a unique and revolutionary product solution with significant market potential.

The Award panel particularly highlighted the company’s successful delivery of 32-bit performance along with the benefits of the ARM Cortex–M3 core in a short span of time to a wide range of the microcontroller market with competitive price points.

“With the Cortex-M3 technology and a few strategic engineering decisions, Luminary Micro offers microcontrollers with 32-bit performance at price points that fit squarely in the 8-bit microcontroller segment,” said market research company Frost & Sulliva’sn Research Analyst Jayalakshmi Janakiraman. “The company’s Stellaris product line has an entry-level pricing of $1, which is a first for microcontrollers based on ARM architecture, and is targeted toward industrial control and embedded applications.”

Luminary Micro was introduced as the lead partner for the Cortex–M3 microcontroller core from ARM in March 2006. Luminary Micro’s delivery of product to the global market began in the same month with the introduction of two Stellaris microcontrollers, including the so called“ARM for $1” entry-level Stellaris family member. This was followed by an additional 4 Stellaris MCUs in May 2006, and 13 more Stellaris MCUs in July 2006, with each introduction adding more integrated memory and functional capabilities.