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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.

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!
Immediately after 9 o'clock a.m. Mr. Favato has presented the Seminar Schedule: new microcontrollers:STM8 e STM32 (as ST Microcontrollers Manager told me when I met him last July), MEMS , Analogic Products and Bluetooth. And from now on my article becomes serious thanks to all the notes I wrote down to make you know all these new products.

ARM is a 32-bit RISC processor architecture, developed by ARM Limited that is the most widely used 16/32-bit embedded RISC solution in the world. The ARM instruction set architecture has evolved significantly since it was first developed, and will continue to be developed in the future!

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ARM is a 32-bit RISC processor architecture, developed by ARM Limited that is the most widely used 16/32-bit embedded RISC solution in the world. The ARM instruction set architecture has evolved significantly since it was first developed, and will continue to be developed in the future!

The most used are:

ARM7 (ARM720T, ARM7EJ-S, ARM7TDMI and ARM7TDMI-S, CORTEX) with large quantity of peripherals and very aggressive prices, this is the direct competitor of all 16/8 bit Microcontrollers (This is the end of 8 and 16 bits Microcontrollers and $1 microcontroller features ARM Cortex core)

ARM9 (ARM920T,ARM922T, ARM9TDMI, SAM9, ARM9E family) the CORE of a Single Board Computer! With the MMU inside, support major operating systems like embedded Linux (Full Linux with full software like Open Office and Asterisk!!) and Windows CE

ARM11 (ARM11 MPCore, ARM1136J(F)-S, ARM1156T2(F)-S and ARM1176JZ(F)-S, i.MX31 ) Highest performance processor!

There are many popular products that are designed upon ARM chips (approximately 75% of all embedded 32-bit RISC CPUs) with rising trend!

Computer Architecture - SnARM project

Tutorial

White Paper about ARM
Documents, slide and PDF

Books

Community

Since ARM is standard cores for ASSP, a lot of chip vendors have aleady release the reference design for their ASSP ARM platform. It is quite useful while engineers start to kick off projects on ARM platform.