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Hi I'm very excited to announce of the release of a new product we have been working on for the last few months called the Cortex-M Prototyping System, as part of the Versatile Express family of products…

This article will detail steps on ARM profile cocos2d-x engine and how developers using DS-5 Streamline performance analysis tool to analyze their own mobile applications and improve app performance.

In this article I will explain how ARM® uses FPGA boards during the development of new cores to validate the design and how this technique is particularly useful to reduce project time and costs, giving…

This article was originally posted on 23 October 2012 on blogs.arm.comARM DS-5TM is becoming a standard tool in the development of complex embedded software for ARM applications processors. The DS-5 d…

New Platform Bring-Up with ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™)I am an FAE at ARM, and part of my job is to support users bringing up new silicon and hardware platforms, so that they can start to develop…

This blog is for those of you who spend hours every day developing and debugging software, and have experienced the frustration that comes with the question “how on earth did my software get here?”This…

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) for the ARM® Cortex®-A9 processor, ported from the Keil® RTX RTOS for Cortex-M series of processors. In this blog, I’d…

This is an article describing the steps how to set up your Android Phone to run ARM Streamline Performance Analyzer. It was originally posted on 8 March 2012 on blogs.arm.comARM Streamline Performance…

Nowadays web browsers are among the most widely used software tools. You can find them being used everywhere on devices ranging from phones and tablets to personal computers. The heart of all browsers…

ARM® DS-5TM Streamline Performance Analyzer, part of the ARM DS-5 toolchain, is an useful tool for developers doing system level software optimization for ARM Linux and Android platforms. Streamline…

The hwmon is a generic Linux kernel subsystem, providing access to hardware monitoring components like temperature or voltage/current sensors. Traditionally interfaced via external buses like I2C, many…

ARM-based platforms come in a range of processor configurations, and these platforms often have more than one ARM processor.  Traditionally these have been Symmetric Multi Processing (SMP) systems, where…

This blog covers three areas of GCC’s command line options: CPU, floating point and SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) acceleration.

This blog shows step-by-step how to build the UEFI software and debug it at source level, including all dynamically loaded modules (DLLs), using the ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5) toolchain.

Embedded devices have rapidly evolved in the past decade. Although these devices are capable of running advanced web and desktop applications with sufficient performance, further improving the software…

IntroductionIn the information era with its increased use of mobile devices to communicate and access information, web browsers constitute the central component to navigate through the vast amount of information…

The need for quality professional tools for cross platform development when battling obscure software bugs and performance issues cannot be understated. With the ARM® Development Studio 5 (DS-5™) Community…

DirectFB (Direct Frame Buffer) is a graphics library that is widely used in embedded systems, especially home market. More and more applications or libraries choose DirectFB as backend, such as Cairo,…

Great leaps in human knowledge are linked to advancements in tools. For software engineers the debugger is a cornerstone tool to create reliable products. We engage in a running battle fighting both the…

Here at ARM, a colleague recently wanted to port Linux to a prototype of a new high-performance Cortex-A9 based platform.  To develop and debug this port, he needed to be able to set breakpoints, view…

This blog covers the use of two powerful debugging techniques — stack frames and instruction trace — to debug random or timing-related bugs on ARM processor-based targets.Timing-related and random bugs…