The Power of 32 Bit Enabling the Next Generation of Security Products

3i-Corporation has incorporated the power of ARM Core 32-bit microcontrollers that gives us a cutting edge over the other manufacturers as they are still in the 8-bit era.
The ARM Cortex 32-bit microcontroller provides high-performance, low-cost platform that meets the needs of minimal memory implementation, reduced pin count, and low power consumption, while delivering outstanding computational performance and exceptional system response to interrupts.
The ARM Cortex 32-bits microcontroller offers many benefits like 32-bit performance at 8-bit costs for cost-sensitive applications, small code size for memory-limited applications, deterministic interrupt response for timing critical microcontroller applications, support of high level languages for shorter development time, strong development tools support, and protection of investment enabled by the broad tools support across the ARM family of microcontrollers.
With the ARM Cortex 32-bits microcontroller, the benefits of a modern, standard 32-bit architecture are available to all microcontroller applications.
However, limitations of 8-bit microcontrollers often provide design and development challenges:
Performance limitations
Because of cost, 8-bit microcontrollers continue to be shoehorned into applications that have outgrown the devices. The resulting code optimization and tweaking—and the lack of quality C compilers—increases development time and cost. And there is no headroom left—any increase in performance requires a move to a non-compatible architecture.
Address space limitations
Address space is small compared to the 4 GB available to 32-bit architectures. Many 8-bit architectures limit direct addressing to a maximum of only 64 KB. Predominance of assembly language helps applications that are most commonly programmed in assembly. In some cases, performance requirements and addressing limitations encourage the use of assembly. More commonly, compiler support is limited as 8-bit instruction sets were not designed with high-level languages in mind.
Proprietary architectures
No CPU architecture dominates the 8-bit microprocessor market. No single line has greater than a single-digit percentage market share, and the largest suppliers have several incompatible lines. This means that switching suppliers requires switching architectures - a non-trivial task given the challenge of porting assembly code.
Limited tools support
The fragmentation of the 8-bit microcontroller market also limits the available hardware and software tools. The divisive market makes it difficult to leverage investments in tools to a different supplier and architecture.