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Achieving the icy wall effect in the Ice Cave demoIce Cave is ARM’s latest demo. It shows that great graphical quality can be obtained in mobile devices with the use of conventional highly optimised rendering…

When creating an animation, it is paramount to have a very clear objective and vision of the asset and its function. How much is the object going to deform? How visible is it going to be in the scene?…

Android software frequently sags under the sheer weight of all the different devices it’s required to support. This is because developers can’t fine-tune the performance of their apps and games with the…

A few months ago, Norwegian sensor developer Novelda unveiled a pair of adaptive Atmel | SMART ATSAM4E16E powered sensor modules capable of monitoring human presence, respiration and other vital information…

Starship was formed to use our extensive experience developing software for games & simulations and apply it to market segments that hadn’t yet been exposed to the transformative power of digital technology…

Do you recall what you were doing back in the summer of fourth grade? Chances are you weren’t creating a programmable, Arduino-based smartwatch like eight-year-old Maker Omkar Govil-Nair, let alone starting…

Microchip has expanded its popular lineup of secure, ARM Cortex M0+-based MCUs with the new SAM L22 series. The Atmel | SMART SAM L family is the highest scoring product family in the EEMBC ULPBench and…

In Part 1 I ran Discovar, a life sciences genome assembly code, on one of our internal systems and optimized it to run the benchmark code 7% faster. Of course, physical hardware often performs very differently…

A quick review of Ethernet switches and transceivers will highlight their importance in the automotive Ethernet and the OPEN Alliance. The connectivity that we’ve long enjoyed via the Internet at home…

If you are following IoT, you must have heard about CoAP, OMALWM2M and IPSO smart objects and have wondered how all these new protocols fits together in a stack. In this post we will look at how these…

Following the strategic partnership announcement at GDC 2015 which was held in San Francisco from 2nd to 6th March : “ARM and Tencent Games collaborate to advance mobile gaming”, we have worked with…

Recently, Carbon released the first ARMv8 Linux CPAK utilizing the ARM CoreLink CCN-504 Cache Coherent Network on Carbon System Exchange. The CCN family of interconnect offers a wide range of high bandwidth…

The IoT team at ARM puts a lot of effort into creating and implemented standards for security and communications. A great example of this is the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP), RFC7252, which…

When director Sam Esmail was casting for his latest cyberpunk–thriller TV series Mr. Robot, we’re surprised serial hacker Samy Kamkar wasn’t in the running for the star role. That’s because, in just the…

We‘ve just released ARM DS-5 Development Studio v5.22 and we have made Streamline more powerful and user-friendly. In this blog, I will highlight the major changes in the latest version.  For a more…

For Internet of Things (IoT) designs, the consumer segment is a sexy siren call, but enterprise applications are where the money is, according to a top analyst from IDC. Vernon Turner, senior vice president…

In electronics design the ecosystem is driving hard toward delivering devices, software and tools to enable IoT to take off. For retailers it could be huge...or not. They’re trying to figure it out as…

ARM’s GIC (General Interrupt Controller) architecture provides an efficient and standardized approach for handling interrupts in multi-core ARM based systems.

At a recent press event in China, Huawei announced their latest flagship smartphone, the Honor 7. This device is special. It marks a major milestone in the use of innovative heterogeneous computing technologies…

Considering making the transition from an Intel-based board to an ARM-based board? I asked two experts at WinSystems what a designer might encounter when making that change.

In a lot of ways debug is similar to being a medical doctor. A patient comes in with some complaints and lists their symptoms, but you need to run tests in order to properly diagnose the issue before focusing…