Arm Community blogs

It all started back in 2008, I'd been looking at what the Software Bill-of-Materials would be for an ARM-based Netbook. I'm a great fan of JEOS (Just-Enough-OS) to support the end users software…

Embedded devices have rapidly evolved in the past decade. Although these devices are capable of running advanced web and desktop applications with sufficient performance, further improving the software…

IntroductionIn the information era with its increased use of mobile devices to communicate and access information, web browsers constitute the central component to navigate through the vast amount of information…

The need for quality professional tools for cross platform development when battling obscure software bugs and performance issues cannot be understated. With the ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Community…

DirectFB (Direct Frame Buffer) is a graphics library that is widely used in embedded systems, especially home market. More and more applications or libraries choose DirectFB as backend, such as Cairo,…

Great leaps in human knowledge are linked to advancements in tools. For software engineers the debugger is a cornerstone tool to create reliable products. We engage in a running battle fighting both the…

Here at ARM, a colleague recently wanted to port Linux to a prototype of a new high-performance Cortex-A9 based platform.  To develop and debug this port, he needed to be able to set breakpoints, view…

This blog covers the use of two powerful debugging techniques — stack frames and instruction trace — to debug random or timing-related bugs on ARM processor-based targets.Timing-related and random bugs…

In this blog you will find information about semihosting, an implementation of the C library that uses a JTAG debugger to interface the world. Semihosting is very useful for board bring-up, as it works…