译文作者宋岩接触ARM的历史很久了，早期是很欣赏这类处理器，到了后来切身使用它们的机会越来越多，慢慢地有了感觉，也更加喜欢了。在接触了Joseph Yiu原著的Cortex M3指南后有了翻译它的冲动。(Song Yan, the author of translation, has been in touch with ARM for a long time. In the early days, he enjoyed such processors very much. Later, he had more and more opportunities to use them, and he liked them more slowly. After the Cortex M3 guide to the original Joseph Yiu book, there was an impulse to translate it.)