PROPRIETARY ARCHITECTURES: DEFEND AUTOMOTIVE SEGMENT

摘要

As EDN Europe reported in its December 2005 and February 2006 issues, the ARM architecture is enjoying increasing acceptance within the automotive and industrial markets that are traditionally the domain of proprietary designs (references 1 and 2). The recent announcement of ARM's Cortex-M - available for the first time in Luminary Micro's Stellaris family - strengthens this architecture's challenge by implementing a redesign that addresses comparative weaknesses in the original ARM7TDMI and its upwardly compatible successors, notably within real-time-response performance.