“The addition of the ARM Cortex-M4 processor to our ARM Cortex portfolio complements our Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M0 processor-based devices and enables us to provide an end to end solution to the MCU community,” said Geoff Lees, vice president and general manager, microcontroller product line, NXP Semiconductors. “With NXP focusing on High Performance Mixed Signal technologies and building on our close cooperation with ARM, we look forward to bringing a Cortex-M4 based MCU to the market, very soon.”

The Cortex-M4 processor is the latest member of the Cortex-M family and blends high-performance digital signal processing features like single-cycle MAC, single instruction multiple data (SIMD) techniques, saturating arithmetic, and a floating point unit, with essential microcontroller features such as integrated interrupt control, low power modes, low cost debug and ease of use.

NXP provides the complete range of ARM-based 32-bit microcontrollers from the ARM7TDMI, the ARM968, the ARM926, to the Cortex-M3, Cortex-M0 and now Cortex-M4 processors.

The NXP LPC1100 is the world's first Cortex-M0 based microcontroller series. With 32-bit performance and multiple power modes including very low, deep sleep power, the LPC1100 series offers industry-leading energy efficiency, greatly extending battery life as well as dramatically improved code density enabling longer battery life and lower system costs.

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