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AUSTIN, Texas—Security is a balance between how much hackers want to gain by infiltrating a system and how much cost and complexity teams are willing to handle to prevent the hack. That was the message…

In this post I start the process of building an oscilloscope's DIY kit using Arm and STMicroelectronics components

Debugging Embedded Systems: the Problems and SolutionsThis article is the first in a series on the new debug features in SOMNIUM DRT.We all know from experience(and this is confirmed by many studies) that…

The trend for the electronics industry remains the same as ever; we want chips that are smaller, faster, more efficient. When you look at the trajectory of SoC designs you can see that the cost of integrating…

In previous blogs we covered an introduction to System Trace Macrocell (STM) concepts and terminology, and the STM Programmers' model with an example of how to generate efficient trace data. Once the…

In this blog, the second in a series, we explore the programmers' model for the ARM System Trace Macrocell. A previous blog covered basic concepts of the STM architecture and implementation. Example…

AUSTIN, Texas—With an eye toward enabling next-generation mainstream mobile designs, ARM this week announced ARM Artisan physical IP, including POP™ IP, based on the new ARM Cortex-A73 processor. Targeting…

This article aims to introduce the ARM System Trace Macrocell (STM), outlining what it is, its basic operation, and why one might want to use it. Example code will be provided, minimally targeted at the…

Something of major significance happened on Friday June 3rd . The computing world collided with the world of nueroscience, here are the two relevant referneces: The Independent reported that Elon Musk…

Here's a quick tip to convert pictures to raw format with FFMPEG, in order to use them as a texture in OpenGL, with no extra conversion :BMP filesffmpeg -vcodec bmp -i /path/to/texture-file.bmp -vcodec…

In February, a new paper from Google's DeepMind team appeared on arxiv. This one was interesting – they showed dramatically improved performance and training time of their Atari-playing Deep Q-Learning…

Welcome to the next installment of my VR blog series. In previous VR blogs we’ve considered the importance of clear focus to a VR experience, as well as the essential requirement to keep ‘motions to photons…

I'm putting this information here, as it took me way more time than it should to understand how the stride argument works in glVertexAttribPointer.This argument is extremely important if you want to pack…

One of the canards that’s regularly trotted out in discussions of ARM vs. x86 processors is the idea that ARM chips are intrinsically more power efficient thanks to fundamental differences in the ISA …

The end of the year is approaching, but I’d like to have one last delta before taking some time off. PowerPC vs. Arm, seems like an appropriate stand-off.

This blog focuses on some of the hardware innovations and changes that are relevant to shared virtual memory and cache coherency, which are components of the HSA hardware specification.

Consider this: The performance of smartphones, nearly all of which are powered by ARM processors, has grown by 100x since 2009. One hundred times in seven years! With that has emerged entirely new functionality…

By now you would have read the news about the latest ARM® Cortex®-A73 processor and Mali™-G71 GPU. These new processors allow for more performance in an ever thinner mobile device, and…

Simply put, security for Embedded  IoT devices is about protecting assets from malicious attack. Typically this protection is thought about in terms of keeping some assets, such as crypto keys, secret…

Mali-G71 is the latest and greatest offering in the Mali high-performance family of GPUs. Built on new Bifrost architecture, Mali-G71 represents a whole new level of high-end mobile graphics capabilities…

When the first car rolled off his production line in 1913, Henry Ford would have already envisioned just how prolific the automobile would become. However, would he have foreseen the extent to which monitors…