8, 16-bit microcontroller to 32-bit Arm® replacement support seminar, with the cooperation of IAR Systems, an embedded development tool manufacturer, points, merits and demerits when migrating from 8, 16-bit microcomputer to Arm® Cortex®-M0+ This is a seminar to explain.

This article presents the results of a survey conducted by those who attended the seminar. If you are interested in this seminar, please take a look.

*Thank you to everyone who participated in the seminar and cooperated with the questionnaire.
*If you want to know the atmosphere of the seminar, please read this article as well.
[Seminar Report] Support for replacement of 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers with 32-bit Arm®

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These are the results of a questionnaire on "recognition of migration issues" to Arm® Cortex®-M0+ and "were the issues resolved?"
As mentioned at the beginning, this seminar is "a seminar that explains the points, advantages, and disadvantages of migrating from 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers to Arm® Cortex®-M0+", so when you migrate This is the item that I am most concerned about whether or not you have understood the issue.

Before attending this seminar, did you know the challenges of Cortex® -M microcontroller migration?

  • Yes I know 6%
  • Almost knew 15%
  • No 78%
  • Other 1%


After attending this seminar, did you solve the problem of Cortex® -M microcontroller migration?

  • Yes resolved 26%
  • Partially resolved 69%
  • No 2%
  • Other 3%
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Before attending the seminar, 78% answered that they did not know the migration task to Arm® Cortex® -M0+. However, 95% of the participants said that they were able to solve their problems or some of them by attending this seminar.
As you can see from the survey results, I think this seminar will help those who are thinking about migrating from 8- or 16-bit to 32-bit Arm® microcontrollers.

Below are the survey results in a little more detail.

What kind of people did you participate in?

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Please tell us the number of bits of the MCU you are currently using.

  • 8 bit 28%
  • 16-bit 50%
  • Other 22%


Considering the content of the seminar, it is natural that most of the participants were using 8- or 16-bit microcomputers. Also, it seems that there are more participants using 16-bit microcomputers than those using 8-bit microcomputers.

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Please tell us the purpose of your participation in this seminar.

  • Information gathering for microcomputer replacement 40%
  • Consider introducing a development environment 10%
  • Information gathering 49%
  • Other 1%


It seems that half of the participants were specifically considering replacement, and the other half participated for the purpose of collecting information for the future. In the future, 32-bit Arm® microcontrollers are considered to be one of the leading options, so it seems that the content of the seminar will be of interest to those who are using 8 or 16-bit microcontrollers.

How would you rate the seminar as a whole?

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Please tell us your overall evaluation of this seminar.

  • Excellent 17%
  • Good 61%
  • Normal 20%
  • Bad 2%
  • very bad 0%


Fortunately, I was relieved that the number of people who felt "extremely bad" was "0", but there were those who answered "normal" and even those who felt "bad", so I will continue to hold seminars in the future. I will give feedback to Thank you for your valuable opinion.

95% rated it as "what they expected"

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This is the result of the questionnaire about the evaluation of the seminar, which is very worrisome for those who planned the seminar.

Surprisingly, 95% of the people who participated in the seminar evaluated it as "a seminar with the content they expected".
You may have been a little careful when answering, but the lecturer and everyone involved is pleased with the extremely high figures.

While we received a high evaluation, we also received comments such as "specific introduction examples" and "wanted a little more hardware explanation", so we hope to reflect them in future seminars and new projects. .

At the end

In the past seminars, we received many applications that exceeded the number of applicants, and we received many reports that they could not participate because the schedule did not match. For this reason, this seminar will be held on a regular basis.

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