Nordic Thingy:53 Platform Combines Dual Arm Cortex-M33 Processor and Embedded Machine Learning for Faster IoT Prototyping

The latest member of Nordic Semiconductor’s Thingy series, the Thingy 53, combines a flagship dual-core SoC, power management IC, PA/LNA range extender, and multiple sensors, along with embedded machine learning firmware, accelerating the realization of advanced wireless proofs-of-concept. Nordic Semiconductor has released the multi-sensor prototyping platform ‘Nordic Thingy:53’ (“Thingy:53”), which features multi-protocol short-range wireless connectivity … Read more

Technical Sharing | Cortex-M0 Interrupt Control and System Control (Part 6)

This article is reprinted from the Extreme Community Extreme Column: Agile MM32 MCU Author:Nuoeriris The Arm processor is designed based on the principles of Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC). The instruction set and associated decoding mechanisms are relatively simple, featuring a 32-bit Arm instruction set and a 16-bit Thumb instruction set. The Arm instruction set … Read more

How Does The Highest Performance RISC-V Processor Compare To Arm?

Author: Huang Yefeng Original from EET Electronic Engineering Magazine Processors based on the RISC-V architecture are increasingly appearing in everyday electronic products, becoming more commonplace: not only have some typical MCU manufacturers begun to embrace RISC-V, such as the previously interviewed Tsinghua Unigroup, but also companies like GigaDevice have launched RISC-V product lines; Moreover, this … Read more

The Development History of Chip Giant ARM

During the China-US trade war, Chinese companies were concentrated in a chokehold in the chip field. This time, Tangxun Information Academy has launched a series of articles analyzing companies in the chip industry for discussion and learning. The British company ARM is a global leader in semiconductor intellectual property (IP) provision. More than 95% of … Read more

RISC-V’s Challenge to ARM in the Simplified Instruction Set Arena

Source: Eefocus Original Author: Liu Haoran Introduction ✦ The main gap between RISC-V and ARM currently lies in the upstream and downstream industrial ecosystem and large-scale applications, which is the biggest challenge and difficulty facing the players in the RISC-V camp. ✦ ✦ We command computers to work, and we cannot simply say to the … Read more

Understanding ARM’s Latest CPU/GPU with 3 Images

Recently, Zhiqu Dog introduced ARM’s brand new Cortex-A75 and Cortex-A55 architectures, as well as the Mali-G72 GPU (see “ARM’s Breakthrough! Mobile Processors Will Transform in a Few Months Because of Them!”). However, the article involved a lot of technical terms, and some readers commented that they found it “hard to understand.” No worries, ARM’s designers … Read more

In-Depth Analysis of Arm’s Cortex A77 Processor

The Cortex A77 architecture, newly launched by Arm in May 2019, utilizes TSMC’s 7nm process with a peak frequency of 3GHz, achieving a 20% performance improvement. A previous article introduced the architecture of the strongest X86 processor, ZEN, which can be found here. This article analyzes the strongest Arm processor, A77, based on the same … Read more

Introduction and Comparison of ARM Cortex-M Processor Family

Summary gaiyao There are now 8 processor members in the ARM Cortex-M processor family. In this article, we will compare the product features among the Cortex-M series processors, focusing on how to choose the right Cortex-M processor based on product applications. This article will detail the instruction sets of the Cortex-M series processors and their … Read more

Is ARM Cortex-X1 Architecture Really That Powerful?

Click the top Computer Enthusiasts to follow us With the release of the Kirin 9000 and Samsung Exynos 1080, the Android smartphone chip sector has officially entered the 5nm era. Unfortunately, the CPU architecture of the Kirin 9000 still lingers at the ARM Cortex-A77 stage released last year, while the Exynos 1080, although equipped with … Read more

RISC-V: What You Need to Know About This Cutting-Edge Technology

RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture (ISA) conceived by developers at the University of California, Berkeley in 2010 and is continuously evolving. RISC in RISC-V stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer, which means it is designed to simplify each individual instruction given to the computer. Since RISC-V is an open standard, anyone can … Read more