Based on the industry's most extensive family of compatible and scalable ARM Cortex-M core-based MCUs, Freescale maintains software and hardware compatibility across its six Kinetis series while offering a variety of general-purpose or application-specific feature options.

"The new ARM Cortex-M7 processor delivers truly exceptional performance and energy efficiency," said Denis Cabrol, Global Marketing and Business Development Manager for Freescale's MCU Group. "By adding this new technology to a wide range of Cortex-M based devices, Freescale expects to ultimately provide benefits to our customers seeking various levels of performance, power, density, and price."

The ARM Cortex-M7 provides up to twice the performance of the ARM Cortex-M4 solution, while offering faster connectivity and powerful intensive processing performance in rapidly growing market sectors such as motor control, power conversion, IoT, and wireless network applications. New ARM technology holds the potential to produce world-class MCUs while expanding the advantages and scalability of ARM-linked systems for higher-performance embedded applications.

"Noel Hurley, General Manager of the ARM CPU Group, stated, 'Freescale has been a long-standing and trusted ARM partner and a key early adopter of ARM's latest technologies.' ARM places great importance on the input provided by Freescale and its customers in determining the capabilities of the Cortex-M7 processor. We expect the Cortex-M7, which doubles the computational performance and DSP (Digital Signal Processing) capabilities of the most powerful ARM-based MCUs currently available, to play a pivotal role in a wide range of innovative, performance-oriented embedded applications."