Cortex ARM Controllers

ARM Microcontroller portfoloio from ARM, the leaders in 32-bit controllers for a variety of applications, has been diversified with a new range of optimized microcontrollers, called the Cortex Series.

The Cortex family currently comprises of three series, which implement the Thumb-2 instruction set: Cortex-A Series, the Cortex-R Series, and the Cortex-M Series.

Of these, the Cortex-M series only implements the Thumb Instruction set and is most suited for cost sensitive, deeply embedded applications.

Luminary Micro is one of the first companies to offer Cortex-M architecture, with their Stellaris series of MCUs.

Luninary Micro currently offers Stellaris in a really small 28-pin SOIC footprint. Two devices, LM3S101 and LM3S102 are available, with varying amount of peripherals and features, but both offer 8KB of Flash program memory and 2KB of SRAM.

Prospective customers can sample these chips, through the "Try Before you Buy" facility offered by Luminary Micro. This facility allows easy access to the Luminary Micro development systems hardware and software using a standard web browser for evaluation and is available through the Techonline website.

Dhananjay V. Gadre

Posted by Dhananjay V. Gadre at 04:19 AM  Permalink