Arm Community blogs

This post goes into the juicy bits of what memory access ordering actually means and how this is handled in the Arm architecture.

This article is the first of a series on Arm fundamentals that will introduce various topics to help you get more familiar with the Arm architecture.

Page colouring is sometimes used as an optimization but as a result of the cache architecture some ARMv6 processors actually require the allocator use page colouring. This article will explain why the…

When writing code for Neon, you may find that sometimes, the data in your registers are not quite in the correct format for your algorithm. We explore this in further detail here.

In this article we will go through the steps required to setup Linux on the PandaBoard using files supplied from Linaro and also the further steps required to setup Linux for use with Development Studio…

The modern web is built primarily from three technologies: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is JavaScript that drives the interactive web; slow JavaScript means slow web pages. So today, a huge amount of effort…

In my first blog, we examined gave the historical context of the instruction set battles of ARM and x86, covering the RISC-CISC Wars in the PrePC Era and the PC Era. This blog covers Round 3, the PostPC…

This two-part blog gives a historical perspective on the ARM vs. 80x86 instruction set competition for three eras: PrePC (late 1970s/early 1980s), PC (mid 1980s to mid 2000s), and PostPC (late 2000s onward…

The 2010 ARM Technology Conference (Techcon) is taking place in Santa Clara next week. A large number of companies will be presenting their solutions to support development and optimization of products…