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  • Walking in the Desert or Drinking from a Fire Hose? HW/SW Verification

    Guest Partner Blogger
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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