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Additional core supportDS-5 v5.25 Professional and Ultimate Editions support cache visibility for Cortex-A5 and Cortex-A7 cores. Ultimate Edition also supports cache and MMU visibility for Cortex-A73,…

The ARM Embedded Logic Analyzer (ELA) brings particular challenges to a debugger. The flexibility of the ELA and the broad range of implementation choices and potential uses, all place demands on a debugger…

In order to keep costs, power consumption, and size to a minimum, many embedded products based on ARM Cortex-R cores have limited on-chip memory. In particular, the size of the Tightly Coupled Memory …

In DS-5 v5.24, we added the Stack View to the debugger. This view displays stack information that used to be displayed in the Debug Control View, giving two advantages. Firstly, the Debug Control View…

The CoreSight cross-trigger network in a SoC is created from two components: Cross Trigger Matrix (CTM) devices form the backbone of the network and transport events around the SoC; and Cross Trigger…

OverviewCMSIS++, or rather POSIX++, is a POSIX-like, portable, vendor-independent, hardware abstraction layer intended for C++/C embedded applications, designed with special consideration for the industry…

The Arm Cortex-M7 processor is the most recent and highest performance member of the versatile Cortex-M processor family.

In previous blogs we covered an introduction to System Trace Macrocell (STM) concepts and terminology, and the STM Programmers' model with an example of how to generate efficient trace data. Once the…

In this blog, the second in a series, we explore the programmers' model for the ARM System Trace Macrocell. A previous blog covered basic concepts of the STM architecture and implementation. Example…

This article aims to introduce the ARM System Trace Macrocell (STM), outlining what it is, its basic operation, and why one might want to use it. Example code will be provided, minimally targeted at the…

For the impatientIf you ever had to do with CMSIS RTOS API and did not enjoy it, or if you felt it like a straitjacket compared to your native RTOS, well, rest assured, your're not alone. The good news…

This blog is an update of one I wrote a couple of years ago, referencing the latest FVP models provided with DS-5 (v5.24 at time of writing) and the latest pre-built Linaro distributions. It is intended…

This blog was written by paulblack to explain some of the new features in DS-5 Development Studio v5.24.In DS-5 v5.24, we’ve made changes to some of the debugger views. These changes are mostly designed…

CMSIS++ is a portable, vendor-independent hardware abstraction layer intended for C++/C embedded applications, designed with special consideration for the industry standard Arm Cortex-M processor series…

At embedded world 2016 ARM announced the smallest and lowest power ARMv8-A ARM Cortex-A32 processor, providing ultra-efficient 32-bit compute for the next generation of embedded products.We also announced…

CMSIS Version 5 - StatusCMSIS Version 5 will focus on improvements and further industry adoption. The license will be changed to the permissive Apache 2.0 license, to enable contributions from interested…

Functional safety is a very important aspect for many industries and ARM DS-5 is the tool of choice for many partners working with safety critical products

With ARM Development Studio, more commonly known as DS-5, ARM continues to extend support for the breath of advanced ARM based devices that are taking take the market by storm. One particular wave of innovation…

The integration of the redBlocks WYSIWYG-SiL-Simulator and the Keil uVision IDE forms a powerful tool for virtualizing the processor and the hardware peripherals of embedded targets in a graphical simulation…

OverviewThe GNU ARM Eclipse project includes a set of open source Eclipse plug-ins and tools to create/build/debug/manage ARM (32-bits) and AArch64 (64-bits) applications and static/shared libraries, using…

Introduction Link Time Optimization (LTO) is a form of interprocedural optimization which, as the name suggests, is performed at the time of linking a program. This is particularly useful when building…