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I've always wanted a Smartphone that can be an abstraction of me. This is driven by my belief that there are people who like writing diaries and those who do not. I've been waiting for a device for…

As you may be aware, my ARM-Powered LEGO robotic Rubik's Cube solver "Speedcuber" was demonstrated live at Mobile World Congress '10 in Barcelona in February this year (actually it almost…

After the video of my most recent Arm-powered Android LEGO Speedcuber robot became so popular, I thought that it would be a while before I was involved in creating another. I should have learned from previous…

The 180nm node of today is nothing like the 180nm node of 2004. In fact the market opportunity for the 180nm node is bigger today than at any time in the past.

One of the key challenges faced by the semiconductor industry today is balancing the growing, yet conflicting demand for mobile devices featuring both high performance and long battery life. Last week…

You don't need a graphic like this one to know that multi-core SoC designs are here to stay.  This one happens to be based on ARM's AMBA® 4 ACE architecture, which is particularly effective…

System-level Analysis with Performance Counters - This is my last post of this series (see Timeline analysis, Smart software profiling and Benchmarking if you missed previous posts), and you would expect…

Benchmarking -  ARM DS-5™ Streamline is designed for software and system analysis (see previous posts on Timeline analysis and software profiling), and that is where all its power features apply…

Smart software profilingFollowing up from previous post (Software Optimization: Four real-life Streamline use cases (Part 1): Timeline analysis), I will talk about the most basic use of ARM DS-5™ Stre…