Energy Micro is developing its ARM Cortex-M3- based super low power microcontrollers with the help of Teradyne's FLEX test platform.
Norway-based Energy Micro purchased a microFLEX test system with BBAC and digital instrumentation to test its ultra low power microcontrollers for battery-operated industrial and consumer appliances.
The platform fulfils test requirements ranging from conventional DFT and structural test to standard analogue and mixed-signal to system-on-a-chip (SOC) and system-in-package (SIP) devcies.
“As a new player in the market, we needed the high parallelism and fast test times that the microFLEX offers to economically test our microcontrollers,” said Geir Førre, CEO of Energy Micro.
This week, Energy Micro revealed to EW further details of what it claims will be the most power efficient ARM microcontroller yet, including details of its autonomous peripheral mode.
The processor is an ARM Cortex-M3 called EFM32.
"The M3 is a good starting point when you are making a low power microcontroller," CEO Geir Forre told Electronics Weekly. "We have been able to implement a Cortex-M3 whose active power consumption with flash active will be much lower than anyone else's Cortex-M3."