A New Milestone for High-Performance Microcontrollers
Arm Cortex-M85 is the highest performing Cortex-M processor with Arm Helium technology and provides the natural upgrade path for Cortex-M based applications that require significantly higher performance and increased security. In addition to Arm TrustZone technology, Cortex-M85 brings new security and safety capabilities, providing the highest level of protection for Cortex-M to date. This makes it ideal for connected and safety critical applications.
Features and Benefits
Cortex-M85 integrates Arm Helium technology to deliver the highest scalar, DSP, and ML performance of the Cortex-M series of processors.
Cortex-M85 removes the need to use complex multicore or heterogeneous platforms, simplifying software architecture, development, test, and debug.
PACBTI offers enhanced software attack threat mitigation, easing the journey to achieve PSA Certified Level 2, which is becoming the baseline for IoT deployments.
Accelerating and Optimizing IoT Design Cycles with Arm Solutions and Technologies
Corstone-310
Includes a configurable and modifiable subsystem based on Cortex-M85 and the Ethos-U55 microNPU to help accelerate development of secure, high-performance IoT systems.
Arm Solutions for IoT
Corstone-310 is available in the cloud with a local voice recognition example as part of Arm Solutions for IoT. Arm Solutions combines the latest specialized processing capabilities with advanced software and tooling.
Software and Tools
Arm’s comprehensive suite of integrated software and tools help make it easier and quicker to design, develop, and maintain AI-based, IoT applications using this technology.
Arm Virtual Hardware
Arm Virtual Hardware delivers models of Arm-based SoCs, including Corstone-310, for application developers to build and test software without hardware, accelerating IoT and ML development.
Where Innovation and Ideas Come to Life
Endpoint AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) at the IoT endpoint is expanding and defining more use cases than ever before, changing how we interact with devices and machines everywhere. Cortex-M85 integrates dual-beat Helium technology to deliver a multi-fold DSP and ML performance uplift over its predecessor.
Industrial IoT
Cortex-M85 combines high-performance and enhanced security with real-time and deterministic behavior, making it ideal for industrial applications, such as high-speed motor controllers and robotic controllers.
Smart Homes
Increasingly smart devices demand 32-bit performance, without compromising on cost or power. Cortex-M85 can be used for a variety of home automation devices, providing the perfect balance of performance and ease of programming.
Automotive
With rising demand for functional safety across the new software-defined vehicle (SDV), Cortex-M85 brings enhanced functional safety features suited to high-performance automotive MCU applications.
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A Foundation of Silicon Success
Explore the architecture and technologies that support the Cortex-M85 processor.
Armv8.1-M Architecture
Implements the simplified programmer’s model of Cortex-M processors for new performance levels without compromising the ease of software development and richness of the Arm partner ecosystem.
Arm Helium Technology
An optional vector extension for the Cortex-M85 processor that delivers a significant performance uplift for machine learning and signal processing applications.
TrustZone for Cortex-M
System-wide hardware isolation for trusted software. TrustZone creates an isolated secure world to provide confidentiality and integrity to the system, protecting your chip from software attacks.