Serial Wire Viewer (SWV) is a real-time trace functionality that is available in Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers. It allows real-time data…
The Arm Cortex-M series of processors feature a Debug Access Port (DAP) that provides debug capability and access to the…
The Cortex-M3 processor provides multiple clock control features that allow significant power savings by slowing or stopping clocks when parts…
Sleep-on-exit is a feature in Cortex-M3 processors that allows the processor to automatically enter a low power sleep mode when…
The reset button is an essential component on ARM Cortex microcontrollers and SoCs. Pressing the reset button restarts the processor…
JTAG and SWD are two common interfaces used for debugging and programming ARM Cortex microcontrollers. Both provide similar capabilities but…
The ARM Serial Wire Debug (SWD) protocol is a two-pin debug interface standard developed by ARM for debugging ARM Cortex…
The Cortex-M0+ processor implements two stack pointers, known as the Main Stack Pointer (MSP) and Process Stack Pointer (PSP). These…
When an ARM Cortex-M processor comes out of reset, it will start executing code from the vector table located at…
The Cortex-M processor is an extremely popular 32-bit ARM processor optimized for embedded applications. One of the defining characteristics of…
The stack pointer (SP) and link register (LR) are important registers used for function calls and returns in ARM processors.…
Embedded systems rely on a bootloader and startup code to initialize the hardware and software components and get the system…
When an ARM-based system powers on, there are several key software components that run to initialize the hardware and prepare…
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