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AUSTIN, Texas—With an eye toward enabling next-generation mainstream mobile designs, ARM this week announced ARM Artisan physical IP, including POP™ IP, based on the new ARM Cortex-A73 processor. Targeting…

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…

Something of major significance happened on Friday June 3rd . The computing world collided with the world of nueroscience, here are the two relevant referneces: The Independent reported that Elon Musk…

Here's a quick tip to convert pictures to raw format with FFMPEG, in order to use them as a texture in OpenGL, with no extra conversion :BMP filesffmpeg -vcodec bmp -i /path/to/texture-file.bmp -vcodec…

In February, a new paper from Google's DeepMind team appeared on arxiv. This one was interesting – they showed dramatically improved performance and training time of their Atari-playing Deep Q-Learning…

Welcome to the next installment of my VR blog series. In previous VR blogs we’ve considered the importance of clear focus to a VR experience, as well as the essential requirement to keep ‘motions to photons…

I'm putting this information here, as it took me way more time than it should to understand how the stride argument works in glVertexAttribPointer.This argument is extremely important if you want to pack…

One of the canards that’s regularly trotted out in discussions of ARM vs. x86 processors is the idea that ARM chips are intrinsically more power efficient thanks to fundamental differences in the ISA …

The end of the year is approaching, but I’d like to have one last delta before taking some time off. PowerPC vs. Arm, seems like an appropriate stand-off.