ARM

The ARM microcontrollers are High-Performance, 16/32-Bit RISC Core devices. ARM market is one of the most fastest growing microcontroller market. The prices of ARM devices now are similar to 8-bit devices, while they are providing much more power and peripherials than any other 8-bit microcontroller do.
They are available from number of vendors like: Analog Devices, Atmel, Cirrus Logic, OKI, Philips Semiconductors, ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments and many others (Intel, Freescale, Samsung, Sharp, Hynix, etc).
Many experts say that in the next 5 years ARMs are going to replace the industry standard 8051 architecture in almost all applications.

Olimex aim is to provide low cost development tools and boards for as many ARM vendors as possible, this year we'll cover all above 7 vendors and will have more than 40 different development boards for ARM7 and ARM9 device.

Few years ago to start with ARM developing the companies had to spend tenths of thousands of USD to buy compiler, debugger/emulator and development board, now everybody who want's to learn ARMs can start with under $100 budged buying JTAG + Development board and using the free ARM GCC C compiler.

PLUS:
Very fast: most ARM7 cores run at 60Mhz and ARM9 cores run at 150Mhz+ providing more power than old 386 Intel processors.
Low power: ARM7 cores need only approx 0.5-1mA per Mhz
Great range of peripherials: ADC, DAC, USB, SPI, UART, I2C, CAN, Ethernet, SDRAM.
Lot of internal Flash: 32KB-1MB, Lot of internal RAM: 4-256KB.

MINUS:
too complex to beginners, definitely this one should be not your 'first steps in microcontrollers' ;)

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  1. iMX233-OLinuXino-SD SD card with the Linux image

    500182iMX233-OLinuXino-SD SD card with the Linux image

    SD card with the Linux image for iMX233-OLinuXino-SD Learn More
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  2. A20-SOM204 - A20 DUAL CORE CORTEX-A7 PROCESSOR

    809289A20-SOM204 - A20 DUAL CORE CORTEX-A7 PROCESSOR

    SO-DIMM FORMAT SYSTEM ON CHIP MODULE WITH A20 DUAL CORE CORTEX-A7 PROCESSOR A20-SOM204-1Gs16Me16G-MC Learn More
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  3. LPC-P2378 DEVELOPMENT PROTOTYPE BOARD WITH LPC2378

    500063LPC-P2378 DEVELOPMENT PROTOTYPE BOARD WITH LPC2378

    LPC2378 16/32 bit ARM7TDMI-Sâ„¢t with 512K Bytes Program Flash, 16K Bytes RAM, EXTERNAL MEMORY BUS, RTC, 4x 10 bit ADC 2.44 uS,... Learn More
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  4. ARM-JTAG

    510009ARM-JTAG

    Parallel port JTAG dongle interface, can be used with all ARM devices for programming and debugging Learn More
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  5. LPC-H2103 LPC2103 ARM7 MICROCONTROLLER HEADER BOARD

    500071LPC-H2103 LPC2103 ARM7 MICROCONTROLLER HEADER BOARD

    LPC2103 ARM7TDMI-S 32-BIT, up to 70Mhz - ARM JTAG 2x10 pin connector for debugging and programming with ARM-JTAG, ARM-USB-OCD o... Learn More
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  6. ARM LPC-P2148 development board

    500032ARM LPC-P2148 development board

    MCU: LPC2148 16/32 bit ARM7TDMI-S? with 512K Bytes Program Flash, 42K Bytes RAM, USB 2.0, RTC, 10 bit ADC 2.44 uS, 2x UARTs, 2x... Learn More
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  7. LPC-P2103 PROTOTYPE BOARD FOR LPC2103 ARM MICROCONTROLLER

    500072LPC-P2103 PROTOTYPE BOARD FOR LPC2103 ARM MICROCONTROLLER

    LPC2103 16/32 bit ARM7TDMI-Sâ„¢ with 32K Bytes Program Flash, 8K Bytes RAM, RTC, 2x UARTs, 2x I2C, SPI, 5x 32bit TIMERS, 8x 10b... Learn More
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    €38.19
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