ARM Community: How Can You Define Embedded Everywhere at ESC? With ARM MCUs! - ARM Community

To start off with some breaking news in the Embedded world is that at the EDN Innovation awards in San Jose last night mBed won the award in the Software/Embedded Tools category. Toshiba announced the TMPM380 Cortex-M3 based MCU specifically designed for the digital control of high-current circuits commonly found in industrial or appliance applications. In addition, Dust announced an ARM Cortex-M3 Processor Based IEEE 802.15.4 SOC. Last but not least, Atmel announced two ARM926 processor based embedded MPUs, the SAM9M11 and SAM9G46, for industrial embedded systems that require secured connectivity and authentication.

The Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) opened in San Jose, California today and, after spending a few minutes walking the floor, I’ve once again been overwhelmed with the ever increasing number of tech companies that are highlighting their support for the ARM Architecture.

I arrived into San Francisco over the weekend to fantastic spring sunny weather – it looks like the sun might temporarily go away for the three days of the show expo and the forecast offers news of light rain showers - but that hasn’t stopped the many hundreds of people arriving at the show to find out more about what’s happening in the world of technology today.

From an ARM perspective, and as the Product Manager of the Cortex-M3 processor, I’ve been monitoring the flurry of new announcements of new products based on the Cortex-M3 and the increasing support for ARM from the many third party products at the show.

Some new product announcements that have already surfaced include news of the sampling of the world’s smallest general-market 32-bit microcontroller from NXP Semiconductors, the LPC1102, based on the Cortex-M0 processor, and STMicroelectronics unveiled the STM32L Ultra-Low-Power ARM Cortex™-M3 based Microcontrollers for ‘Energy-Lite’ Applications – I’ll be looking for more info about these products on the NXP and ST booths.

I will be catching up with the team from Cypress Semiconductor on today who is showing the PSoC® 5 product in the ARM Partner Pavilion at Booth #1308. PSoC 5 is a programmable embedded system-on-chip based on the Cortex-M3 processor, integrating configurable analog and digital peripheral functions, memory and a microcontroller on a single chip, and was announced a while back but this was my first opportunity to chat with Cypress about it – check back later this week for the video on ARMflix.

Stay tuned for videos from the show floor each day, for example, Cortex-M family products being demoed, interviews with key players in the industry, and much more so make sure to come back to the ARM-Events blog (and ARMflix) to find out the latest news from the show floor.

I’ll also been posting news from the show on the ARMEmbedded twitter feed so take a look at that to see some photos that I took today. You can also follow what others are talking about at the show via the #ESC_Events hashtag.

If you’re at the show and would like to chat with me then just visit the ARM Partner Pavilion at Booth #1308 and ask one the ARM team to find me – I’d love to find out what your views are and maybe I can post them on the blog later in the week.

Andy Frame, CPU Product Manager, ARM, is based in Cambridge and is fanatical about the success of the Cortex-M3 and how it is rapidly becoming the de-facto standard for 32-bit MCU’s. Since joining ARM in 1995, Andy has had a variety of roles from Software Tools Technical Training though to Business Development, joining the CPU product management team about two years ago to look after Cortex-M3.

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