I heard once one guy telling one of his friends : "I'd give my right arm to know what's inside this portable device." He didn't know he was already holding an Arm in his hands.... since ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. Learn more about this embedded processor.

We use the USB mass storage devices everyday, such as USB hard disk, USB stick, USB flash card reader, CD/DVD, mobile devices. Those devices are commonly found in our life, until I got the STM32 evaluation board from a local supplier.

How to select software or hardware floating point depending from your ARM Microcontroller.
Recently I started to collect the open source robot projects from the Internet. The SRV1 robot from Surveyor LLC seems to be very funny. The company hosts two open source projects, one is based upon 60MIPS NXP2106 ARM7 microcontroller, the other one is developed on 500Hz ADI Balckfin MPU.

I was a marketing engineer for Philips microcontroller. To offer training courses for our customers is included in my job description. I still remember a good question from one of my customers. It demonstrates how our universities have misguided our students. The question is how to find extra timers in a complex application while a standard microcontroller usually has only two or three timers? The answer is simple. You have to create the additional timers in software. Yes, software timers.

I first learned of the STM32 Primer at a technical seminar presented by STMicroelectronics. The STM32 Primer is designed to provide a complete toolset for STM32 that is fun and easy to use. Give it a try and learn about the features of the STM32 and the powerful ARM Cortex™-M3 core.

USB-Stick as development systems

It's the fad of the moment and, we, as designers, do love these Gadgets! But what they are? Are Development Tools in USB Stick format simply toys or are they offering a complete and reliable debug system?
Surely the latter, because the capability (some of them have an ARM on board) and the versatility make a quality product highly useful for the developers.

Does the title confuse you? It's very simple...Take a teacher of literature and put her in the middle of the electronics world. I have landed like this at the ST-NEWS2008 Silverstar Seminar. Maybe you ask yourself what do literature and electronics have in common .... well let me tell you: nothing! But we don't know what life can give us and we must always be ready to change the job and, more importantly, to learn news things! I already attende some seminars, but there we talked about the metaphors or the liaison between the human been and the nature and for sure not about... microcontrollers! Luckily working since 2007 on this web site helped me a lot, so I did not feel like an alien!

Every Engineer that has participated to seminaries or conferences of the main companies of microcontrollers knows better what is the future of the embedded applications: 32bit also for the cheap applications. And every company has its ARM or Not ARM oriented strategy!

I introduce a new Reference Project realized with a Renesas M16C microcontroller.
We are talking about a Remote Console able to visualize the informations from the serial, managed from keyboard.
Optimal in order to realize a SMS visual display unit on PC (as IperSMS).