[Tinyos-devel] TinyOS on Cortex M3?

[Philip Levis]

On Mar 13, 2008, at 8:17 AM, John Regehr wrote:

> I'm just curious-- has anyone looked into porting TinyOS to Cortex  
> M3 chips?  These represent ARM's attempt to woo developers away  
> from 8 and 16 bit MCUs.  Based on a quick look, the STM32 product  
> line from ST has power numbers roughly in the ballpark for a mote- 
> class device.
>
>   http://www.st.com/mcu/inchtml.php?fdir=pages&fnam=stm32
>   http://www.st.com/mcu/files/mcu/1190813173.pdf
>

The last time I checked (which was, admittedly, a year ago), there  
were no sleep current numbers for M3 chips. The brochure claims  
pretty low numbers. It would be good to see if those hold up in  
practice; they've always been the issue with ARM chips.

Phil