Blogs

During the last days of August 2013 I was in the wonderful city of Vancouver, Canada, to attend Unite 2013, one of the biggest events dedicated to Unity, the market-leading platform for creating high-quality…

I saw what looks like the start of a series of short videos on the ARMflix YouTube channel. Of course, it doesn't go into much details, but I thought it was a simple way to discover the series. As they…

Hello there!At this year's TSMC OIP event, I presented “Optimizing Cortex-A57 for TSMC 16nm FinFET” and it was a packed auditorium.I would like to thank ARM, TSMC and Cadence for such an impressive colloboration…

The implementation of multi-threading in multi-core processor systems is being heralded as a potential solution to the challenge of achieving ever-higher performance targets with strict limits on power…

In this blogpost, Gabor Ballabas and I share why and how we’ve set up a public buildbot for the LLVM AArch64 backend. This buildbot is part of the LLVM community’s continuous integration infrastructure…

Rest in Peace Symbian  After 11 years, this is the first quarter when a S60 Symbian phone will not be shipped. Though in its day, Symbian had a very strong fan base with over 75% market share, it has since…

It’s been a terrific year for the Mali™ Developer Resources team this year, with the Mali Graphics Debugger being released along with support for the ARM® Mali-T604 in ARM DS-5™ Streamline…

This blog was originally posted on 22 February 2011 on blogs.arm.comARM processors have been predominant in the smartphone market and are becoming increasingly mainstream in the overall embedded space…

This is an article describing the steps how to set up your Android Phone to run ARM Streamline Performance Analyzer. It was originally posted on 8 March 2012 on blogs.arm.comARM Streamline Performance…

This blog was originally posted on 9 January 20131 IntroductionARM® NEON™ technology is a SIMD (single instruction multiple data) architecture extension for the ARM Cortex™-A series processors…

This blog was originally posted on 7th March 2011 on blogs.arm.comPreviously I introduced UEFI and its history, now I will get into its benefits, especially for the usage on ARM-based systems. I will further…

Note: This was originally published on the 14th of February 2012 at blogs.arm.com.I have recently been using the ARM Streamline profiler to study the behaviour of Mozilla Mobile Firefox (code-named Fennec…

This post is part of a series:Condition Codes 1: Condition Flags and CodesCondition Codes 2: Conditional ExecutionCondition Codes 3: Conditional Execution in Thumb-2Condition Codes 4: Floating-Point Comparison…

In this blog we run through branch and call sequences to explain what they are and how to use them as well as interworking branches between Arm and Thumb Code.

ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers are becoming the defacto standard for the next generation of low power control applications.This paper looks at the various criteria to be considered when selecting…

Portable, battery powered devices are sweeping through society like wild fire.  Mobile computing and sensor devices are springing up everywhere providing engineers with not only a plethora of data but…

ARM architecture is supported by all popular RTOS vendors in embedded. Here is a table showing the RTOS companies, their products, and an indication of which ARM processors they support.

This blog describes how to get Android running on ARM-based SoC boards. We run through the overall procedure and point out potential pitfalls and other things that you may encounter.

Today, using one of the early examples from the CUDA toolkit, I’m going to introduce a neat feature of CUDA 5 and CUDA 5.5 - dynamic parallelism - and how to use Arm DDT to debug it.

Blog orgininally posted on 11 July 2011 on blogs.arm.comHaving chosen the optimal implementation, as described in the previous blog (Elba - How do we know it works?) we now turned our attention to power…

This tutorial explains how to have a LAMP server running Drupal on a PandaBoard. These instructions will apply to any other Cortex-A platform with few or no changes.The growing variety of ARMv7-based inexpensive…