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Walking in the Desert or Drinking from a Fire Hose? HW/SW Verification
Guest Partner Blogger
You don't need a graphic like this one to know that multi-core SoC designs are here to stay. This one happens to be based on
ARM's AMBA® 4 ACE
architecture, which is particularly effective…
September 11, 2013
ARM Versatile Express Cortex-A57 Soft Macrocell Model
Liam Dillon
An SMM is a Soft Macrocell Model which is an FPGA implementation of an ARM processor, built with ARM development boards. Life with an SMM, would be much easier, at least from an engineer's perspective…
September 11, 2013
Power Management with big.LITTLE: A technical overview
Steve Willis
Using power management features of complex SoCs (system on chip) can be difficult due to the complexity of the design and multiple power domains. In this blog I discuss the power management hardware features…
September 11, 2013
ARM Cortex-A...How Hard Can it Be?
Sumit Sahai
Smartphones are now one of the most important consumer electronics devices globally. Smartphone volume shipments are growing at a very healthy rate and are expected to exceed a billion units per annum…
September 11, 2013
The Server in Your Hand - and the three new interfaces inside it
Guest Partner Blogger
Do you love your smartphone? Is your tablet the best computer you've ever owned? If you're like me, and nearly a billion other folks on the plant, the answer is a passionate YES! The evidence is everywhere…
September 11, 2013
ARM Cortex-A50 Processor Series Wins 'Product of the Year' Award
Brian Jeff
More than 3400 product announcements. 700 applications. Less than 20 winners selected for 2012.It was a great honor for the
ARM® Cortex™-A57 and A53 processors based on the ARMv8 architecture to receive…
September 11, 2013
ARMv8 Architecture, The whys & wherefores of AArch64 - 64-bit Applications
John Goodacre
It’s been a year since ARM announced the first details of the new
ARMv8 architecture
with its support for 64-bit virtual addressing. This comparatively early announcement allowed the architecture…
September 11, 2013
Ten Things to Know About big.LITTLE
Brian Jeff
As the adoption of Arm big.LITTLE processing spreads there are a number of common questions which have been raised. I'd like to use this blog to answer some of the more common queries.
September 11, 2013
What is AMBA 5 CHI and how does it help?
Bruce Mathewson
At last the time has finally come when I can talk about AMBA 5 - the next generation of Arm interface standard. So, what's new?
September 11, 2013
big.LITTLE in 64-bit
Brian Jeff
With the ARM Cortex-A50 series processors, ARM has introduced a "big" and "LITTLE" processor pair that is 64-bit capable. What does this mean for big.LITTLE software?
September 11, 2013
ARM Cortex-A53 — Who You callin' LITTLE?
Brian Jeff
I may only weigh in at just over half a square millimeter on die, but I can handle a heavy workload and I pack quite a processing punch, and frankly I'm tired of the lack of respect I get as a "LITTLE…
September 11, 2013
Configure AMBA Fast With Early Power, Performance & Area Tools
Guest Partner Blogger
Back in April, I wrote about how
Atrenta
- an
ARM Connected Community
Partner - was helping to tame the SoC design problem with early power, performance and area or
ePPA
technology. ePPA holds great promise…
September 11, 2013
Time Flies When You're Having Fun - big.LITTLE Technology Coming of Age
Alan Tringham
It's often said that as one gets older, time appears to pass faster and faster. As proof of that it seems only yesterday that I had a full head of hair and ARM launched
big.LITTLE
. In fact it's been…
September 11, 2013
Instant Replay of Your ARM Cortex-A Series Simulations and Emulations
Guest Partner Blogger
If you've watched any sporting event on television lately, you've seen the pressure put on referees and umpires. They have to make split-second decisions in real-time, having viewed ultra-high-speed action…
September 11, 2013
Squaring the circle - Optimizing power efficiency in a Cortex-A15 processor
Haydn Povey
It is entirely appropriate that
ARM will announce
technical details of its latest hard macro product, the
Cortex™-A15 MP4 Hard Macro
for TSMC 28HPM node at
COOL Chips XV
, the IEEE Symposium on Low…
September 11, 2013
Streamlining the migration to an ARM processor based platform
Chris Shore
Now available design strategies and documentation to ease the migration to an ARM platform - From one programmer to another. You could say I'm an "Acorn boy" - I cut my programming teeth on personal computers…
September 11, 2013
Using Cache Coherency to Verify the AMBA4 Protocol
Guest Partner Blogger
The Jasper User Group Meeting was held on November 8 & 9 and was full of presentations on the diverse ways that users are applying formal techniques — some in areas where never before thought possible…
September 11, 2013
big.LITTLE and AMBA 4 ACE keep your cache warm and avoid flushes
Neil Parris
Updated 29th October 2013High performance and power efficiency are critical to the latest mobile devices, and
AMBA® 4 ACE™
is a fundamental technology supporting ARM's
big.LITTLE proces…
September 11, 2013
Simplifying SoC's with Hard Macros - New solutions for old problems
Haydn Povey
At the
TSMC
Open Innovation Platform (OIP)
forum in San Jose this week Mike Inglis, the General Manager of the Processor Division at ARM, presented a keynote speech succinctly titled "Enabling Smart System…
September 11, 2013
Energy Efficiency and Air Conditioning - Part 1
Ashley Stevens
I've recently realized just how similar mechanical and electronic engineering are when it comes to energy conservation. You see, I've recently begun construction of an energy-efficient, Frank-Lloyd Wright…
September 11, 2013
Avoiding rush hour traffic jams in your SoC design
William Orme
Thank goodness for the new packetization, virtual networking and clock gating features of the
ARM CoreLink NIC-400
. I'm fed up with hearing about spurious comparisons between a single humungous crossbar…
September 11, 2013
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