ARM® Cortex™-M3 core
The Cortex™-M3 processor is the latest generation of ARM® processors for embedded
systems. It has been developed to provide a low-cost platform that meets the needs of MCU
implementation, with a reduced pin count and low-power consumption, while delivering
outstanding computational performance and an advanced system response to interrupts.
n 32-bit ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor core
n Up to 72 MHz operation frequency
n Single-cycle multiplication and hardware divider
n Integrated Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller (NVIC)
n 24-bit SysTick timer
The Cortex™-M3 processor is based on the ARMv7 architecture and supports both Thumb
and Thumb-2 instruction sets. Some system peripherals listed below are also provided by
Cortex™-M3:
n Internal Bus Matrix connected with ICode bus, DCode bus, system bus, Private
Peripheral Bus (PPB) and debug accesses (AHB-AP)
n Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller (NVIC)
n Flash Patch and Breakpoint (FPB)
n Data Watchpoint and Trace (DWT)
n Instrument Trace Macrocell (ITM)
n Memory Protection Unit (MPU)
n Serial Wire JTAG Debug Port (SWJ-DP)
n Trace Port Interface Unit (TPIU)
On-chip memory
n Up to 1024 Kbytes of Flash memory
n Up to 32 Kbytes of SRAM
The ARM® Cortex™-M3 processor is structured in Harvard architecture which can use
separate buses to fetch instructions and load/store data. 1024 Kbytes of inner Flash and 32
Kbytes of inner SRAM at most is available for storing programs and data, both accessed
(R/W) at CPU clock speed with zero wait states. The Figure 6. X32F1003xx memory map
shows the memory map of the X32F1003xx series of devices, including code, SRAM,
peripheral, and other pre-defined regions.
