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32-bit microcontroller IP. The ARM company which designs the ARM cores doesn't make controllers itself, but licences the IP to other manufacturers. ARM is the leading 32-bit controller and is available from tens of suppliers.

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What's so great about ARM?

In a comment to this answer Kortuk asks what the ARM advantage is. I first added some arguments in my answer, but I think the question is interesting enough to be a question in itself, so that more answers are possible.
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Good beginner book on ARM

I'm looking for a good beginner book for ARM microcontrollers. It should cover the CPU architecture and the boot sequence and ideally also assembler, C and peripherals. I have a book like this for AVRs and there seem to be several good choices for…
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Is ARM a microprocessor or microcontroller?

I have been having a hard time trying to know if ARM is a microprocessor or microcontroller or something else?
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Minimalist Cortex-A9 design

Does anyone know of a good basic Cortex-A9 design? Something with just enough to run with power and ethernet? I'm looking for something as a starting point and maybe with eagle files. edit: While this isn't my first time designing something. I do…
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Latest ARM processors that are not BGA

I am looking for an ARM, preferably with an MMU, that is not in a BGA package so hobbyists reflow it at home.
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Overview of ARM-MCUs

Is there a place to compare ARM-MCUs of different manufacturers? something like this but way bigger: http://www.mikrocontroller.net/articles/ARM_Selektor
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Does developing on ARM Processors from different vendors differ much?

I have started developing applications on XMC 2 go evaluation board. I, more or less, got the idea. But what if I try to go for, lets say, STM32? For XMC1100 setting pin 00 as output is PORT1->IOCR0 &= ~PORT0_IOCR0_PC0_Msk; PORT0->IOCR0 |= 0x0 <<…
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Beginning arm cortex Ax hardware development

Where can one find information on how to put together a minimal linux bootable board based on the cortex A family (like the beagleboard)? Programming information is plentyfull, but hardware knowledge appear more arcane. I'm especially curious…
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Which ARM Cortex M chips allow for execution from RAM?

I've been playing around with writing operating system-like software, mostly as a self learning experience. I've been doing this on the Atmel AVR processor, since it's simple enough for me to understand and get a program going quickly. I now want…
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memcpy issue in ARMcc

I am facing an issue of bytes being copied in a reverse order when I compile code using ARMCC. For example : short int dest; short int src = 0x0010; memcpy(&dest,&src,sizeof(short int)); The value in the dest when i look into the memory display is…
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ARM Development

I an new to using micro controllers .Recently, I have seen the ARM being talked about. How different is ARM -Cortex development than normal Arduinos? I have used a PSOC recently, which does use an ARM Cortex. But How can I start learning…
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ARM Processor board and Programming

I am trying to develop an ARM development board using ATSAM3U4C with a 96 MHz clock, a few LEDs and a button for external interrupt. Shown below is a little circuit that I have put in place. Using Atmel SAM-ICE 20 pin JTAG connector as the debugger…
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Looking to get started with ARM microcontroller development on Linux

I am looking to get started in developing for ARM microcontrollers on Linux. Keep in mind I really enjoy the low level. Right now I have some experience with PIC16F series and 8 bit AVR. This is on the assembler level. I much prefer the PIC over…
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Where to find ARM CortexM complete register list and description? ie. for stm32f746

I'm new to ARM microcontrollers and currently learning from the book "The designer's guide to cortex-M Family" by Trevor Martin. One of the odd things I've found is that I can't find many of the register's description such as SCB, PRIGROUP and many…
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ARM time measurement

On page 10 in the this article there is an example of time measurement with AVR. Is the same thing possible to do with this?
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