Energy Micro

Energy Micro AS

Energy Micro logo
Company type	Private
Industry	Semiconductors, Electronics
Founded	2007
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway, NO
Products	Microcontrollers
Website	www.energymicro.com

Energy Micro AS is a manufacturer of 32-bit Flash microcontrollers. The semiconductor company focuses on 32-bit microcontrollers with low energy consumption. The EFM™32 microcontroller family has a CPU that is based on the ARM Cortex™-M3 architecture.

The EFM32 products consists of:

• Standard microcontrollers
• Application specific microcontrollers
• Custom microcontrollers

History

Energy Micro AS was founded in 2007. The team consists of semiconductor experienced personnel where the President and CEO Geir Forre previously founded Chipcon, now Texas Instruments Norway AS. Co-founder CTO Oyvind Janbu has experience from both Chipcon, TI, and Tandberg. The VP of Engineering Eirik Jorgensen has previously worked for Atmel, and the VP of Sales and Marketing John Helge Fjellheim has experience from semiconductor companies like Texas Instruments and Chipcon.

Company Mission

Although the company has not revealed its target figures, the homepage states "...the world's most energy friendly microcontrollers". Geir Forre has also stated that the company targets 8-bit power consumption for their 32-bit devices.

EFM32

EFM stands for Energy Friendly Microcontrollers, and the number 32 relates to the 32-bit Cortex-M3 processor.

EFM32 Application areas

EFM32 devices main areas are in the low power industrial and consumer battery powered applications. This typically consist of energy metering, alarms and security systems, consumer products, communication and computer networking systems, industrial sensors, and portable medical and sports solutions.

See Also

Risc architecture
ARM_architecture
ARM: Energy Micro Licenses Cortex-M3 Processor
EETimes: ARM Extends to Low Power applcations

External Links

Energy Micro AS
EFM32 application areas ARM Community: Energy Micro/EFM32