Future looks to expand ARM based qualification scheme
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Future Electronics is to extend the scope of its ARM Accreditation Corporate Partnership to include ARM's Microprocessor Accredited Engineer qualification.
The company become an ARM Accreditation Corporate Partner in February 2014 and, as part of its agreement with ARM, made a commitment that its 75 EMEA field applications engineers would gain the ARM Accredited MCU Engineer (AAME) certificate. This required them to cover a range of topics, practise the implementation of ARM based designs and demonstrate their knowledge in an independently administered exam.
According to Future, the initial phases of the partnership have produced encouraging results. Steve Carr, Future's vice president of vertical markets EMEA, said: "Customers love the new depth and breadth of guidance they are getting from our engineers. It means we can help design engineers earlier, when they are making their choice of ARM core, and before they have chosen their MCU.
"They also appreciate the supplier neutral advice they get from Future, which helps them to make strategic decisions about their design architecture with the benefit of a real understanding of the differences between one core and another."
In the first phase of the programme, 45 of Future's engineers around the world (15 in EMEA) have been trained as ARM Accreditation educators. The company is now extending the scheme, providing extra training to half of these educators to equip them to take the ARM Accredited Engineer (AAE) examination.
While the AAME qualification is focused on ARM Cortex-M MCU cores, the AAE qualification covers ARM's Cortex-A series of MPU cores, widely used in computing, telecoms and networking equipment.
