Mobile, Graphics, and Gaming blog

Modern games and applications really push the boundaries of real-time graphics and user interfaces on mobile and to do this they need all the components of the system to work together to provide the performance…

Chinese Version 中文版：[原创翻译]GPU通用计算有兴趣吗？你有多种选择！The most notable addition to OpenGL® ES when version 3.1 was announced at GDC earlier this year was Compute Shaders. Whilst similar to vertex and fragment…

Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) is a powerful tool in signal and image processing. One very valuable optimization technique for this type of algorithm is vectorization. This article discusses the motivation…

This year at GDC Khronos announced the latest version of the OpenGL® ES API. OpenGL ES 3.1 is taking a step up from OpenGL ES 3.0 to enable new, fascinating mobile graphics content. With headline features…

Previous blog in the series: Mali Performance 2: How to Correctly Handle Framebuffers This week I'm finishing off my slight diversion into the land of application framebuffer management with an analysis…

At SIGGRAPH 2014 we presented the benefits of the OpenGL ES 3.0 API and the more newly introduced OpenGL ES 3.1 extension. Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression format (ASTC) is one of the biggest introductions…

This week I look at how, and more importantly when, the Mali driver stack turns OpenGL ES API activity into the hardware workloads needed for rendering.

In his book "How music works", David Byrne points out that music is created to fit a given context: music that would sound great in a symphony hall would likely sound unconvincing in a stadium…

This post is to help you write a simple program with compute shaders. I hope this blog will help you to create more advanced applications based on this technology.

This guide will show how to get ARM DS-5 support working on a production Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 edition) devices, with minimal modifications.

ABSTRACTThis guide will show how to get ARM® DS-5™ Streamline™ support working on a production Google Nexus 10 device, with minimal modifications.The resulting files generated will be a gatord, gator.ko…

April 1, 2014 was the date for the Israel Machine Vision Conference (IMVC) in Tel Aviv.  I’m always slightly wary of attending events held on April 1.  I never know for sure that after all the queuing…

Mali performance: In this blog we will look at debugging issues around macro-scale pipelining, the means by which we keep the GPU busy and some of the common reasons for that frame level pipeline to stall…

ARM has published a set of OpenGL ES extensions. We explain what led us to develop them and show how they can be used to implement common graphics algorithms more efficiently.

I start my blog series with a subseries on technology that I know and come to love best - OpenCL from the Khronos Group.

In this first blog of a series about GPU Compute we look at the one of the biggest challenges facing the future development and evolution of smart devices.Isn’t technology wonderful?  It’s incredible to…

If you're looking for a short summary of the ARM-related news from GDC, look no further than here! The hugely exciting Expo Floor has opened, the attendees are flooding in, the major announcements have…

In this blog, I’ll give a personal perspective on what OpenGL ES 3.1 is and why it's important.

Here at ARM we continuously work to increase the quality of our driver software. Thorough testing is a significant proportion of our driver production process and its efficiency enables us to deliver drivers…

In this blog I will finish the construction of this abstract machine, forming the final component: a stereotypical Mali Midgard GPU programmable core.

Welcome to my series of blogs on engineering software for accelerated systems!  Special-purpose hardware designed to execute certain computations (prominently, GPUs designed to execute graphics computations…