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Migrating ARM7 code to a Cortex-M3 MCU-November 2, 2009 |
There's a new ARM embedded core in town. Here's a step-by-step guide to porting your code to the Cortex-M3.
By Todd Hixon, Atmel
Embedded.com (10/30/09, 09:00:00 AM EDT)
The ARM Cortex-M3 core has enhancements to its architecture that result in increased code execution speed, lower power consumption, and easier software development (Table 1). The result is a true real-time core that overcomes real-time processing limitations of the ARM7TMI core. Over time, most ARM7-based designs will be migrated to the Cortex-M3.