mbed microcontroller

The mbed microcontroller

The mbed microcontroller is a single-board microcontroller and associated tools for programming the device.

The current hardware of the mbed microcontroller is based around an NXP - built ARM based Cortex-M3 core, running at 96MHz, with 512KB FLASH, 64KB RAM, as well as several interfaces including Ethernet, USB Device, CAN, SPI, I2C and other I/O.

The mbed microcontroller and tools are designed and maintained by ARM, in Cambridge, UK.

Toolchain

Uniquely, the toolchain provided with the mbed is purely online based. Code is written and compiled in a web based AJAX style IDE. Integrated with the online tools is an online community supporting discussion, code sharing and documentation.

The mbed is provided with a set of high-level object oriented libraries which support interaction with the majority of the board's I/O interfaces.

Awards

The mbed microcontroller received 1st prize in the annual EDN Innovation Awards' Software/Embedded Tools category ^[1].

References

1. ^ EDN awards page

External Links

• Official website of mbed
• Review on hackaday.com
• Review on devmonkey.edn.com
• RS signs deal to offer mbed processors on newelectronics
• RS joins the mbed revolution on EETimes
• mbed gives ARM a hand on designnews.com
• mbed Sense and Simplicity on elektor.com