G. H.

Raisoni College of
Engineering and Management,
An Autonomous Institute
INTRODUCTION TO EMBEDDED PROGRAMMING
(BECP19102)

Topic Name – ARM

MICROCONTROLLER
Presentation by –
1. KANDARP
ACHARYA(41)
Guided by – 2. RAM SABLE(42)
Prof. Shraddha Raval 3. SAHIL KAMBLE(53
 CONTENT:
• Introduction to ARM Microcontroller
• About Arm Microcontroller
• Arm basic operating mode
• ARM Coretex-M3 Microcontroller
Architecture
• ARM-Cortex Microcontroller
Programming
• Features of the Arm Cortex-M3
Processor
 Introduction to ARM Microcontroller:

The ARM-Cortex microcontroller is a most

popular microcontroller in the digital
embedded system world and most of the
industries prefer only ARM
microcontrollers since it consists of
enormous features to implement products
with an advanced appearance. The ARM
microcontrollers are cost sensitive and
high performance devices which are used
in a wide range of application such
 About Arm Microcontroller :
• The ARM stands for Advanced RISC machine
and it is a 32-bit reduced instructions set
computer (RISC) microcontroller. It was first
introduced by the Acron computers’
organization in 1987. The ARM is a family of the
microcontroller developed by the different
manufacturers such as ST microelectronics,
Motorola and so on. The ARM microcontroller
architecture come with a few different versions
such as ARMv1, ARMv2 etc and each one has
its own advantage and disadvantages. The ARM
cortex microcontroller is an advanced
microcontroller in the ARM family, which is
developed by the ARMv7 architecture. The ARM
cortex family divided into three sub-families such
 Arm basic operating
mode
 The ARM has seven basic operating modes:

1. User : unprivileged mode under which most tasks run

2 .FIQ : entered when a high priority (fast) interrupt is raised

3. IRQ : entered when a low priority (normal) interrupt is raised

4. Supervisor : entered on reset and when a Software Interrupt

instruction is executed

5. Abort : used to handle memory access violations

6. Undef : used to handle undefined instructions

7. System : privileged mode using the same registers as user mode

 ARM Coretex-M3 Microcontroller
Architecture:

• The cortex-M3 ARM processor is a high

performance 32-bit processor, which offers the
significant benefits to the developers. The ARM
architecture is a ‘Harward architecture’ which
offers separate data and instruction buses for
communicating with the ROM and RAM
memories. It consist a 3-stage pipeline to fetch,
decode and execute the instructions
sequentially. The Cortex processor is a cost
sensitive device which is used to reduce the
processor area and has extensive improving
interrupt handling and system debug capabilities.
ARM Coretex-M3 Microcontroller
Architecture:
 ARM-Cortex Microcontroller
Programming:
In the present days, the microcontroller
vendors are offering 32-bit microcontrollers
based on ARM cortex-m3 architecture.
Many embedded system developers are
starting to use these 32-bit microcontrollers
for their projects. The ARM microcontrollers
supports for both low-level and high level
programming languages. Some of the
traditional microcontroller architectures are
made with many limitations therefore,
difficult to use the high level programming
language. For example the memory size is
limited and performance might not be
sufficient. The ARM microcontrollers runs at
100Mhz frequency and higher performance,
therefore it supports the higher level
languages. The ARM microcontroller is
 Features of the Arm Cortex-M3
Processor:
1. It is a RISC Controller
 32-bit high performance CPU
 3-stage pipeline and
compact one
2 .It has THUMB-2 technology
 Optimal merges of 16/32 bit
instructions
 High performance
3. It supports tools and RTOS and It has
core Sight debug and trace
 JTAG or 2-pin serial wire debug
connection
4 .Low power Modes
 It supports sleep modes
 Control the software
 Multiple power domains
5. Nested vectored interrupt controller
(NVIC)
 Low latency, low jitter interrupts
response
 No need for assembly