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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
Cache Coherency and Verification Seminar at DACNow Online!
Guest Partner Blogger
If you missed
DAC
, then you missed the seminar on cache coherency and verification of cache coherency given by
ARM
and
Jasper
. Learn how to overcome the typical challenges of capturing the intent, reviewing…
September 11, 2013
Elba - Bringing it all together
John Goodacre
In the previous three blogs (Parts
1
,
2
and
3
) I've outlined the background and key decisions involved in the development and implementation of the Elba testchip. Now we'll look at the final steps taken…
September 11, 2013
Elba - How do we know it works?
John Goodacre
In
part 1 of this blog
, I outlined the thought process behind the Elba program. Here I'll look at the implementation decisions for the project.In ARM there are various stages of maturity of a new processor…
September 11, 2013
Wouldn't it be interesting if we... - Giving Birth to "Elba"
John Goodacre
"Wouldn't it be interesting if we....". That's the way many step changes have started in ARM. In the next four blogs I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you about just one of those, we called it…
September 11, 2013
ARM Cortex-R processor. What is it good for?
Guest Partner Blogger
The answer is functional safety applications. At least, that's where
TI's
ARM® Cortex™-R
cores are utilized - in high performance, real-time microcontrollers. As many real-time…
September 11, 2013
Honey, SuVolta Deeply Depleted My Cortex-M0 Power!
Thomas Ensergueix
A wide variety of applications will be impacted by the massive trend which is broadly named as the "Internet of Things" (IoT). Even if some may consider this term as being overused, and newer marketing…
September 11, 2013
Cortex-M0+ a year after: smaller, thriftier and smarter!
Thomas Ensergueix
As usual it happened late on Friday afternoon. A couple of weeks ago a message arrived in my inbox from one of our latest
ARM® Cortex™-M0
+ partners: "We're using 90LP and a similar configuration…
September 11, 2013
Energy Efficiency and Air Conditioning - Part 2: ARM Cortex-A7
Ashley Stevens
ARM Cortex-A7
processor...It's all about right-sized equipment. In
Part 1
of this blog we saw how right-sizing of air conditioning is vitally important because it performs three different functions…
September 11, 2013
Combining large and small compute engines - ARM Cortex-A7
Brian Jeff
Today the
ARM Cortex-A7 processor
was announced
...the power of
big.Little processing
is finally realized! I drive a Honda Fit, mainly for the fuel efficiency, on a 20 mile city street commute. Sometimes…
September 11, 2013
How small can small MCUs get?
Richard York
I was asked to contribute a quote for a
press release
that our friends at
Freescale
made a few days ago. When I read it I didn't fully appreciate just how tiny their little device is. Or at least I did…
September 11, 2013
8-bit versus 32-bit MCUs - The impassioned debate goes on
Richard York
Recently I read a post by
Steve Leibson
that referred a very passionate on-going debate on the
"ARM Based Group" on LinkedIn
from a few industry veterans about the pros and cons of 8-bit versus…
September 11, 2013
ARM Cortex-M0 Swiftly Rides the Airwaves
Thomas Ensergueix
When I first saw the name of the series from
Nordic Semiconductor, namely nRF51
, I thought to myself "Oh God! These guys are doing great RF, but still use the good old 8051 processor -- what a shame!"…
September 11, 2013
The un'NXP'ected LPC800
Thomas Ensergueix
I take a deeper look at NXP's mini-tiny-LPC800. With NXP being one of our lead-partners on the ARM Cortex-M0+, and also previously on the Cortex-M0, I was really excited to see what they came up.
September 11, 2013
ARM Cortex-M0+: More than a low-power processor
Thomas Ensergueix
This week sees the launch on the
Cortex-M0+ processor
-based
Freescale Kinetis L family
of MCUs just two months after the official launch of this latest addition to the
Cortex-M processor series
. The…
September 11, 2013
The 'big' impact of 'LITTLE' processing to electricity bills everywhere
Lakshmi Mandyam
The
ARM Cortex-A7 processor
and
big.LITTLE processing
announcement
are game changers for the "always on' home networking and consumer applications. Developers can now choose the right size processor for…
September 11, 2013
'NEON Programmer's Guide' now available
Jim Fallon
The NEON™ Programmer's Guide provides information about how to use the ARM Advanced SIMD instructions to improve the performance of intensive data processing applications running on ARM processors. Read…
August 29, 2013
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