Many of today’s embedded industrial and automotive systems are built upon 8- or 16-bit microcontroller architectures. With the availability of new low-power 32-bit architectures, there is an ...

Although 32-bit MCUs represented only 300 million of the nearly 6 billion total units shipped in 2003, they accounted for $2.4 billion in revenue, as shown in Fig. 1. Although 3.5 billion of the units ...

Before we dig into core architectures and other technical details, it's important to convey some general guidelines and context. In my college days, I remember taking a test and being so intent on ...