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  • 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
  • Cache Coherency and Verification Seminar at DACNow Online!

    Guest Partner Blogger
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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