Microcontroller

Keil Evaluation Kits for ST Microelectronics Cortex M3 parts  

Keil currently sells various versions of their microcontroller evaluation kits. For example, consider the kits for the ST Microcontroller Cortex M3 part. There are two version of the STM32 kit now shipping with a third version due to ship in December 2009 for the so-called Connectivity series of parts. The versions currently shipping are known as MCBSTM32 and MCBSTM32E.

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ST Microelectronics ARM Cortex Seminar Series

9 October 2009 by Mark Moran, Joral Technologies

Recently, ST Microelectronics commenced hosting a series of seminars to acquaint developers with their STM32 line of microcontrollers. These microcontrollers known the ARM Cortex M3, are based on the ARMv7-M architecture. This architecture features a 3 stage pipeline, the Thumb-II instruction set which supplants the requirement for the ARM/Thumb mix, optional memory protection unit, and the new highly integrated NVIC vector interrupt controller. This core is specifically designed to reduce cost, consume less power, and lend itself to high degrees of peripheral integration. Clock speeds run upwards to 100MHz where it can achieve execution rates of 125DMIPS.

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