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I Techinsights – a division of United Business Media, LLC Paul Miller President, Chief Executive Ofﬁcer © 2008 E.B.P. SA, a Techinsights company • Embedded Systems Design Europe is published eight times a year. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system without the express prior written consent of the publisher. The contents of Embedded Systems Design Europe are subject to reproduction in information storage and retrieval systems. º • Embedded Systems Design Europe is available free to qualiﬁed readers and to others for an annual subscription of €150. Refunds on cancelled subscriptions will only be provided at the Publisher’s discretion. Subscription queries tel: +32 2 740 00 50 • Printed by Perka. s there any limit to the number of traditional microcontroller suppliers ready to license ARM’s Cortex-M3 processor. ARM’s latest ﬁgures show that up to the end of March, 65 licenses had been sold and now Zilog, a long-time supplier of 8- and 16-bit MCU solutions is expanding its 32-bit portfolio with a Cortex-M3 license. Zilog is no stranger to ARM. Three years ago Zilog licensed the ARM9 microprocessor family for its new Zatara family of 32-bit applications speciﬁc standard products that targeted the secure transactions/point-of-sale market. With the introduction of the ARM Cortex-M3 processor in 2004, ARM for the ﬁrst time speciﬁcally targeted the very low-cost requirements of a broad range of markets and applications, including microcontroller and automotive segments, where memory and core size signiﬁcantly impact device costs. First to sign up in March 2006 to use Cortex-M3 in general purpose microcontrollers was start-up Luminary Micro and the company has now more than 130 variants in it portfolio with its most recent introduction in April adding 30 new members to its Stellaris family. Luminary Micro is betting it future on the Cortex-M3 and an indication of its success is that it was recently awarded the 2008 Global Frost & Sullivan Entrepreneurial Company Award. And signing up to the Cortex-M3 is a worldwide phenomenon. In April Energy Micro, an Oslo based semiconductor start-up, signed a licensing agreement fwith plans to introduce its ﬁrst ultra Colin Holland is editor of Embedded Systems Design Europe. He can be contacted at chollandse18@mac.com. low-power 32-bit microcontroller family, based on the ARM Cortex-M3 processor, in the second quarter of 2009. Energy Micro is a fabless chip company formed in 2007 by Geir Forre, president and CEO, who was co-founder and CEO of Chipcon Group AS, the RF and ZigBee company acquired by Texas Instruments for $200 million in January 2006. Energy Micro says its main objective is to produce the world’s most energyfriendly microcontrollers. The EnergetIC microcontroller family from Energy Micro is being designed to have energy consumption at a level that is far below today’s solutions. ARM is not sitting on its laurels and only last month enhanced the feature set of the Cortex-M3. The latest release includes a wake-up interrupt controller which allows almost instantaneous return to fully active mode from an ultra-low leakage retention state and introduces enhanced power management features that address the ongoing need in the embedded market for increased performance and longer battery life in next-generation designs. The Cortex-M3 processor is now also supported by the ARM Power Management Kit and is tightly integrated with, and optimized for, low-power physical IP standard cell libraries and memories from the ARM Artisan physical IP family. Additional enhancements include the ability to integrate solutions for safety-critical and fault-robust applications in industrial, medical, and automotive applications. Other public licensees of the processor include Actel, Broadcom, NXP, Renesas, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Toshiba and I would not bet against at least another name being added to the roster by the time you get to read this issue. 5 www.embedded.com | embedded systems design europe | MAY 2008 http://www.embedded.com/europe http://www.embedded.com

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Embedded Systems Design Europe - May 2008 Contents Microsoft Provides Embedded Roadmap Enea Buys Developers Irish Start-Up Raises Funds for Telecom FPGAs Kontron Promotes COM Express Nano Mentor Nucleus Platform Provides UI for Atmel Small Form Factor Boards Head for the SUMIT Proffibus Advances IO-Link Integration Embedded Developers Cautious on Multicore Auto Cooperation Improves Test Altera Launches DO-254 Partner Network Building an ‘Instant-Up’ Real-Time Operating Systems An Architecture for Reusable Embedded Systems Software Free up Bandwidth in PCI Express Evaluating Software in Medical Devices Circuit Sensitivity in Analog Circuits Choosing Flash Memory New Products Advertising Contacts

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