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As we learned during Kickstarter Week modern development boards are amazing tools that have put the power of the microprocessor into the hands of hobbyists and entrepreneurs everywhere. These development…

You might remember that back in August we released details of a program ARM had been working on in conjunction with Szeged University and Samsung Research UK.TyGL is a new backend for WebKit which demonstrates…

This year at GDC I gave a presentation on our exhibition booth about using ASTC with different types of textures to get the best visual results. It’s interesting that in the past whenever I spoke about…

"The Future Direction of the ARM Cortex-M Processor Family" Below are the slides from an ARM TechCon 2014 presentation by ianjohnson, Senior Product Manager at ARM, that goes in depth about…

I started my design career far too long ago doing system verification on a multi-processor server design.  Basically, I was charged with assembling a model of the system and then writing some tests to…

This post is designed as a tutorial in how to write assembly code for the Cortex-M series.

Connect the unconnected and that's exactly what three cat-loving Ph.D. students at the University of Illinois did with their robotic cat toy that reacts to your cat - yup, and they're claiming (I trust…

The fun never stops during ARM Kickstarter week and our latest interview is with Humberto Evans, the creator of Pantelligent. This is a great story of determination and an interesting business "pivot…

Its ARM Kickstarter week and I must admit that as we dig into all things Kickstarter I am amazed by how much is happening, for those who have long and non-volatile memories, it’s like a Heathkit or Altair…

I have previously shared how to install OpenCL on the Samsung XE303C12 Chromebook powered by the ARM Mali-T604 GPU. I have found that things are slightly different on the newer Samsung XE503C12 Chromebook…

For ARM Kickstarter Week I interviewed Kaido Kert about his brand new Kickstarter project called Blossom. I was personally interested in this project because I have a couple of highly dysfunctional sprinkler…

Frustrating isn't it?  You're using your new smartphone or tablet to view pages on the Internet, watch a video or get the latest traffic information and the mobile communications just can't handle it.…

It’s fitting that we start ARM Kickstarter Week with a teardown of the Pebble watch. To me the Pebble was a breakthrough hardware product on Kickstarter and it broke new ground in two ways.

For our first interview during Kickstarter Week we decided to start at the beginning of hardware design and look at the development board choices for aspiring Kickstarters. This is a good news scenario…

To allow the ARM ecosystem to manage the next stage of its evolution, ARM is introducing a set of small scale enhancements known as ARMv8.1-A.

It is difficult to summarize 20 years of development of the AMBA architecture, and I hope this short blog provides a simple overview of its function as well as a brief summary of the architecture's history…

Chinese Version 中文版: 使用DS-5从FVP中收集Trace数据One of the new features for ARM DS-5 Development Studio in v5.20 is instruction trace for our Fixed Virtual Platform (FVP) simulation models. This enables you to…

In the newest version of Android, Lollipop (5.0), the virtual machine (VM) implementation has changed from Dalvik to ART. Like most VMs, ART has an interpreter for executing the bytecode of an application…

Arm Forge is a development tool suite for developing, debugging and optimizing CUDA and OpenACC codes - from GeForce to Tesla and the Kepler K80.

Embarrassingly ParallelIn the world of parallel computing when an algorithm can be easily split into multiple parallel jobs, where the output of each of the jobs doesn’t depend on the output of any other…

The first Carbon Performance Analysis Kit demonstrating the AMBA 5 CHI protocol has been released on Carbon System Exchange. The design features Cortex-A57 for AMBA 5 CHI and CoreLink CCN-504 Cache Coherent…