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This week I look at how, and more importantly when, the Mali driver stack turns OpenGL ES API activity into the hardware workloads needed for rendering.

ARM is constantly providing updates to our DS-5 toolchain, and details of these updates are provided in the change log. When you purchase the tools, you will receive either a term or perpetual license…

Take a closer look at the code size of ARM’s Thumb instruction set against the microMIPS32 instruction set.

Register now to join design experts from Nuvation, Altera and ARM (stefanrosinger, CPU Product Manager) for this free SoC FPGA design webinar on May 8 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT.FPGAs leverage IP cores…

ARM has started what I find an interesting series of presentations giving facts about their products.Here is the list so far:Ten Things to Know About big.LITTLEFive things you didn't know about the ARM…

While the majority of Cortex-M processor-based microcontrollers are single core designs, some new microcontrollers with multiple Cortex-M processors are also available.

In his book "How music works", David Byrne points out that music is created to fit a given context: music that would sound great in a symphony hall would likely sound unconvincing in a stadium…

IoT sensors breed a new future as technology fades into the background. Old industries are reformed, new applications light up and take flight while data stalls. Tomorrow begins today!With more than 50…

An inside look at some of the new 64-bit processors coming from ARM partners in 2014.  

Get to know the Embedded Developer...This is a monthly series featuring embedded developers of the ARM Connected Community.Name: jensbauerCompany: GPIOJob Title: Design EngineerLocation: Herning, DenmarkDeveloper…

This post is to help you write a simple program with compute shaders. I hope this blog will help you to create more advanced applications based on this technology.

This guide will show how to get ARM DS-5 support working on a production Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 edition) devices, with minimal modifications.

ABSTRACTThis guide will show how to get ARM® DS-5™ Streamline™ support working on a production Google Nexus 10 device, with minimal modifications.The resulting files generated will be a gatord, gator.ko…

Linux® has become a popular operating system in embedded products, and as a result is experiencing increased usage for system design and verification. This means that a new set of people, who are not traditional…

Valgrind is a GPL'd framework for building simulation based debugging and profiling tools.  The best known of these is Memcheck, a memory error detector, but in fact it is only one of eight tools in the…

There are many topics in the C language that often confuse developers but the use of the static keyword seems to be one of the more common.

1. Introduction    Most of the new ARM processors have Vector Floating Point (VFP) coprocessor which provide hardware implementation of floating point operations. The VFP capability offers the enhanced…

For 3 years, my Mac has been very, very, very (and I mean very, very, very) sluggish.Typing on the keyboard would give me approximately 1 character per second.Sometimes I even had to resort to using my…

I’ve thought for a while that connecting the car of the future implies at least three different kinds of communication system with a vehicle: Mobile Internet, using 4G mobile communications (LTE, LTE…

ARM® Compiler 6 is the next generation C/C++ compilation toolchain from ARM, based on Clang and the LLVM Compiler framework. Version 6.00 of the toolchain provides architectural support for v8 of…

April 1, 2014 was the date for the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC) in Tel Aviv.  I’m always slightly wary of attending events held on April 1.  I never know for sure that after all the queuing…