Microcontrollers

2021-07-09 Friday

Notes On Microcontrollers

^ Manufacturers of Microcontrollers

Manufacturers visited:

• STMicro of Switzerland
• NXP of the Netherlands
• Microchip
• Nordic

Not yet visited:

• Cypress Semiconductor
• Renesas of Japan
• Silabs
• Dialog
• Qualcomm

^ NordicSemi

An nRF9160 development kit:

• https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-hardware/nrf9160-dk

Notes on building, flashing to board, and testing example vRF9160 projects and demos:

• https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/46281/nrf9160-at_client-sample-project

2021-07-20 Tuesday Searching at NordicSemi.com specifically for example code for the nRF9160:

• https://www.nordicsemi.com/search?query=nRF9160+example+code

The most important information for firmware starting works at this link for nRF9160 SDK. Note that there is mention of Zephyr RTOS integration:

• https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-software/nRF-Connect-SDK

^ Microcontroller Qualities and Considerations

Low power benchmark testing:

• https://www.eembc.org/ulpmark/
• https://www.eembc.org/ulpmark/ulp-cp/scores.php

Out of Order Execution:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-order_execution