For current users of 8- and 16-bit MCUs, Stellaris™ with Cortex-M3™ offers a direct path to the strongest ecosystem of development tools, software and knowledge in the industry. Designers who migrate to Stellaris™ will benefit from great tools, small code footprint and outstanding performance.

Importantly, Designers can enter the ARM© ecosystem with full confidence in a compatible roadmap from $1 to 1 GHz. You will never need to change architectures again.

For users of current 32-bit MCUs, the Stellaris™ family offers the industry’s first implementation of Cortex-M3™ and the Thumb-2 instruction set. With blazingly-fast responsiveness, Thumb-2 technology combines both 16-bit and 32-bit instructions to deliver the best balance of code density and performance. Thumb-2 uses 26 percent less memory than pure 32-bit code to reduce system cost while delivering 25 percent better performance.

The era of pervasive 32-bit computing, control and communication has arrived.