Architectures and Processors blog

Semihalf is happy to present the first blog post from the planned series of topics covering interesting facts about porting FreeBSD to Armv8 architecture.

When we look at what’s happening in consumer electronic devices, you can see there is a clear evolution path. The smartphone has become the central computing device for most people and it is now being…

Hi all, I can finally share with you some of the interesting work we have been doing around Cortex-M0 Design Start and FPGA. ARM has re-launched the Cortex-M Design Start program making it more easily…

Android software frequently sags under the sheer weight of all the different devices it’s required to support. This is because developers can’t fine-tune the performance of their apps and games with the…

ARM’s GIC (General Interrupt Controller) architecture provides an efficient and standardized approach for handling interrupts in multi-core ARM based systems.

In a lot of ways debug is similar to being a medical doctor. A patient comes in with some complaints and lists their symptoms, but you need to run tests in order to properly diagnose the issue before focusing…

This is the third in a series of blogs that gives a technical introduction to the ARM CoreSight Debug and Trace technology and architecture.

FreeBSD is an advanced UNIX-based operating system used to power modern servers, desktops and embedded platforms. The FreeBSD community has had support for 32-bit ARM for some time, and is now looking…

I'm doing a series of blogs that give a technical introduction into ARM CoreSight debug and trace technology. The ETM and PTM trace units are trace sources that monitor ARM processors.

Debug can be a pain. At the best of times it's a nuisance and in the worst case scenario a complex web of wires that need to be configured properly to diagnose and solve SoC design problems.

IP integration is increasingly seen as a key challenge in SoC development. Increased system complexity, IP reuse, IP configurability and tightly-bound schedules have all combined to break traditional flows…

Chinese Version 中文版：通过智能配置进行系统汇编The modern SoC is designed with many modular IP blocks that have been commercially licensed or reused from previous designs, along with some new proprietary components.…

Identity thieves are getting quite sophisticated when it comes to stealing your username and password.   We might be wary of an unsolicited email containing a link but what if it came from a friend's email…

Following on from the popularity of the Cortex-A Series Programmer’s Guide for ARMv7-A, there is now a programmer's guide for processors implementing the ARMv8-A architecture profile.

Continuing on from my earlier blog: A Brief History of Arm, I pick up the history of Arm in 1998 as it became a public company after being floated on the London stock exchange (FTSE) and the NASDAQ.

In early 2015, ARM announced a suite of IP for Premium Mobile designs, with the ARM® Cortex®-A72 Processor delivering a 3.5x increase in sustained delivered performance over 28nm Cortex-A15 designs…

Since 2014, there has been an ever increasing number devices shipping with ARMv8-A based Cortex Processors – ranging from $65 smartphones to premium flagship devices.

On the list of activities that system designers enjoy doing, “debugging” is invariably near the bottom. That’s because it is often complicated, time-consuming and downright frustrating to track down and…

Chinese Version 中文版：了却芯片设计的恐慌The modern SoC is a feat of engineering that continually squeezes greater performance from defined power and area constraints. However the arch nemesis of reliability is complexity…

You can easily attain the timeline of events of Arm as a company, but it doesn’t really tell the story of how Arm came into existence and rose to the top of its respected industry.

Last week, several of our partners unveiled new Chrome OS devices powered by Cortex-A17 based processor. These new products include two Chromebooks from Haier and HiSense at very competitive low price…