“As was evident at the recent Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose, the ARM architecture continues to gain momentum in the MCU market, with suppliers such as Atmel, Luminary Micro, NXP and STMicroelectronics all demonstrating Cortex-M3 processor-based MCUs and NXP also introducing the first parts based on the Cortex-M0 processor,” said Colin Barnden, principal analyst at Semicast Research Colin Barnden, principal analyst at Semicast Research.
Microcontrollers are small computers-on-chip consisting of a relatively simple microprocessor combined with support functions, such as a crystal oscillator, timers, watchdog, serial and analog I/O, and memory.
Semicast Research: ARM to have leading 32-bit MCU architecture in 2011
Posted on Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 17:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Semiconductor and electronics industry market research firm Semicast Research predicts ARM will become the leading 32-bit microcontroller (MCU) architecture in 2011, ahead of x86 and Power Architecture.
