Many of today’s embedded industrial and automotive systems are built upon 8- or 16-bit microcontroller architectures. With the availability of new low-power 32-bit architectures, there is an ...
Although 32-bit MCUs represented only 300 million of the nearly 6 billion total units shipped in 2003, they accounted for $2.4 billion in revenue, as shown in Fig. 1. Although 3.5 billion of the units ...