ARM® Processors and the Internet of Things · ARM® Processors and the Internet of Things Joseph Yiu Senior Embedded Technology Specialist, ARM . 2 Internet of Things is a very Diverse

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ARM® Processors and the Internet of Things

Joseph Yiu

Senior Embedded Technology Specialist, ARM

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Internet of Things is a very Diverse Market

Sensing, processing, controlling, automating, communicating, connecting

Smart energy

Power management

Servers, Industrial

Appliances

Health

Fitness

Medical devices

Smart homes

Security, Safety

Automotive

Electric vehicles

Human interface

Location aware

MEMS sensors

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Wireless

IoT - Wide Range of Technical Requirements

Sensors • Ultra Low power

• Small silicon area

• Low cost

• High code density

• Low Interrupts

processing overhead

Sensor Hubs

• Low power

• Small silicon area

• High performance


• Interrupts processing

capability

• Real Time

Communications • Low power

• High performance


• Interrupts processing

capability

• Real Time

Smart phones •High performance

• Low power

• Full feature OS

• Full feature Multi-media

• Security

Servers • Excellent performance

• Energy Efficient

• Full feature OS

• Security

• Scalability

Wearables • Low power

• Low to Mid-range

performance

• Security

• Bare metal to range of OS

• Multi-media

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So how does ARM Cortex® Processors Map into Different Applications?

Cortex-R7

Cortex-M4

Cortex-A15

Cortex-M0

Cortex-A9

Cortex-R5

Cortex-A5 Cortex-A7

Cortex-R4 Cortex-M3

Cortex-A12

Cortex-A17

Cortex-A8

Cortex-A53

Cortex-A57

Cortex-M0+

Cortex-M1

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The ARM Processor Family

Many cores are developed over the years Application

Processors

(with MMU,

support Linux,

MS mobile OS)

Real Time

Processors

Microcontrollers

and deeply

embedded

System capability &

performance

ARM7TM series

ARM920TTM,

ARM940TTM ARM946TM,

ARM966TM

ARM926TM

Cortex-M3

Cortex-M1

(FPGA)

Cortex-M0 Cortex-M0+

Cortex-M4

Cortex-R4

Cortex-R5

Cortex-R7

Cortex-A8

Cortex-A9

Cortex-A5

Cortex-A15

Cortex-A7

ARM Cortex Processors Classic ARM Processors

Cortex-A57

Cortex-A53

Cortex-A12

ARM11TM

series

Cortex-A17

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Wireless

Ultra low power

Low gate count

High code density

Simple system designs

Sleep modes support

Deterministic behavior

Flexible interrupt management by NVIC

Low interrupt latency

Scalable instruction set

Simple ISA – Cortex®-M0 / Cortex-M0+

Powerful ISA – Cortex-M3 / Cortex-M4

Silicon Labs EM35x

ZigBee system-on-chip ARM Cortex-M3 Processor

Dialog Semiconductor DA14580 Bluetooth LE

ARM Cortex-M0 Processor

Freescale KW01 / KW20 Sub-1 GHz / Zigbee

ARM Cortex-M0+/M4 Processor

GainSpan GS2000 WiFi & ZigBee IP (6LoWPAN)

2x ARM Cortex-M3 Processors

Linear LTC5800-IMP 2.4GHz (802.15.4 / 6LoWPAN)


Sierra Wireless AirPrime WP6 2G EDGE system-on-chip


Nordic Semi nRF51822 Bluetooth LE


TI EM35x CC2538

ZigBee system-on-chip ARM Cortex-M3 Processor

Broadcom BCM20736 Bluetooth LE + wireless charging


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Sensors / MEMS

Ultra low power

Cutting edge low power & sleep modes (e.g. SRPG)

High code density

Simple system designs

Mixed signals

Low gate count for analogue processes

Low cost

ST LIS331EB smart motion sensor

3-axis sensor-fusion accelerometer


Cypress TrueTouch

Noise immune multi-touch sensor

ARM Cortex-M Processor

http://www.st.com/web/en/press/en/p3383

http://www.analog-eetimes.com/en/touchscreen-controller-boasts-excellent-noise-rejection-and-precise-stylus-capability.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222905828

http://www.analog-eetimes.com/en/touchscreen-controller-boasts-excellent-noise-rejection-and-precise-stylus-capability.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=222905828

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Microcontrollers/Microprocessors

Wide range of requirements based on applications

Low power, sleep modes

High performance

Code density

Interrupt processing

Real Time / RTOS

Linux

Texas Instruments AM3703CUS

Sitara ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessor

Freescale

SCK60DN512VLL10

(Cortex-M4)

Freescale

SCKL16Z128V

(Cortex-M0+)

Ember EM357 integrated

ZigBee/802.15.4 SoC (Cortex-M3)

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nest+Protect+Teardown/20057

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Nest+Learning+Thermostat+2nd+Generation+Teardown/13818

http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/sprs616f/sprs616f.pdf

http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/data_sheet/K60P100M100SF2V2.pdf?fpsp=1&WT_TYPE=Data Sheets&WT_VENDOR=FREESCALE&WT_FILE_FORMAT=pdf&WT_ASSET=Documentation

http://cache.freescale.com/files/microcontrollers/doc/data_sheet/KL16P64M48SF5.pdf?fpsp=1&WT_TYPE=Data Sheets&WT_VENDOR=FREESCALE&WT_FILE_FORMAT=pdf&WT_ASSET=Documentation

http://www.silabs.com/Support Documents/TechnicalDocs/EM35x.pdf

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Sensor Hubs / Sensor Fusions

Low Power

Low gate count

High code density

Real Time Performance

Data processing


Deterministic Behaviour

Flexible interrupt management by NVIC


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Wearable Diverse Requirements

Entry Level Mid Range High End

OS Baremetal / RTOS / Proprietary Linux / Android / Proprietary Linux / Android / Proprietary

GUI LEDs / small LCD (120 x 120) LCD (e.g. 220 x 220) LCD / Glasses

Processor Ultra low power processor

without MMU (e.g. Cortex®-M3)

Low power Application

processor with MMU (e.g.

Cortex-A5) +

Ultra low power processor

(e.g. Cortex-M0+) for

background I/O tasks

Energy Efficient Application

processor with MMU (e.g.

Cortex-A12) +

Ultra low power processor (e.g.

Cortex-M0+) for background

I/O tasks

GPU requirement - Maybe (Mali™-4xx) Yes (Mali-4xx / Mali-6xx )

Video Engine - - Maybe (Mali-500)

Audio - Yes Yes

Connectivity Bluetooth / USB Bluetooth / WiFi / USB Bluetooth / WiFi / USB / mobile

GPS - - Maybe

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Wearables – Entry Level Range

Low power (battery powered)

Low gate count

High code density

Sleep modes support

Connectivity

Protocol stack


Data processing

Low cost

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Wearables – Mid Range to High End

Virtual Memory /MMU

Linux / Android

High performance

Floating point

NEON™ Adv SIMD

SMP multicore

AXI/ACP/Cache

Graphics

Security

TrustZone

Oakley Airwave

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Smart Phones to Super Phones

Performance

Multi-core

Superscalar

NEON™ Adv SIMD

FPU

Graphics

Efficiency

big.LITTLE™

Security

TrustZone®

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Communication, Infrastructure

High performance

FPU

Cache memory

Deterministic


Low Latency Peripheral Port

TCM

Reliability

MPU

ECC / Parity

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Servers / Enterprise

Performance

64-bit / 32-bit

Multi-core

Superscalar

NEON Adv SIMD

FPU

Cache, SCP

Crypto

GPGPU/Open-CL

Efficiency

big.LITTLE™

Security

TrustZone®

(Mali-T6xx/T7xx support Open-CL full profile 1.1)

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There are Much More in a System…

System IP (CoreLink™)

AHB / AXI / ACE bus interconnect

DMA controller

L2 cache controller

Memory Controller (e.g. DDR)

AMBA® Designer

Mali GPU / Video Engine / Display Processor

Advanced graphics UI

GPGPU/Open-CL

Additional debug and trace IP

CoreSight™ SoC

Physical IP

Cell libraries, memories, I/O

Services

providers

OEM

Middleware

Tools

vendors

Chip

vendors

Foundries

Infra-

structure

EDA

industry

ARM

Ecosystem

Strong product

roadmap

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Summary

IoT is a hugely diverse market

One size doesn’t fit all

ARM processors powering most of the wearable devices today

ARM technologies in many IoT products

ARM is in the leading market position

Wide range of processors for different IoT segments

Additional system IP solutions (e.g. interconnect, memory controller)

Close collaboration with various parties

Largest ecosystem in the industry

Strongest product roadmap

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Thank You

Joseph Yiu

Senior Embedded Technology Specialist