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…
Strongly ordered memory is a memory ordering model used in the ARMv6 and ARMv7 architectures to ensure correctness and consistency…
Microcontrollers have limited amounts of memory available, so it is important to understand how this memory is partitioned and used.…
ARM Cortex M processors provide several ways to access constant and immediate values directly within instructions. This allows efficient access…
ARM Cortex-M processors feature both instruction and data caches to improve performance by reducing accesses to slower main memory. Caches…
ARM Cortex-M processors can be configured with either a unified or separate memory address space for code and data. The…
The ARM Cortex-M series of microcontroller chips utilize a modified Harvard architecture. This architecture separates instruction and data memories into…
The key difference between Harvard and Von Neumann architectures is that Harvard architecture has physically separate storage and signal pathways…
Bit-banding is a feature in some Arm Cortex processors that allows single bit modifications to be made to memory mapped…
The ARM architecture supports both conditional and unconditional branches to alter the flow of program execution. Conditional branches test a…
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