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Anyone taking a serious look at the embedded market really has to speak to Freescale because the whole market came about because Motorola (Freescale’s former parent) was so successful with the 68000 architecture…

I am Hans-Kristian Arntzen! I work in the Mali use cases team where we explore the latest mobile APIs to find efficient ways of implementing modern graphics techniques on the ARM Mali architecture.

RealtimeUK are a Creative CG Studio that has spent the last 18 years forging a strong reputation within the games industry for the quality of our Cinematics, Animation and Marketing Imagery. Whilst our…

About thirty years ago, Acorn partnered with the BBC with the purpose of putting at least one computer into every school in the UK. The goal was to get children interested in writing code and it has been…

Previous blog in the series: Mali Performance 4: Principles of High Performance RenderingWelcome to the next instalment of my blog series looking at graphics rendering performance on Mali GPUs using OpenGL…

This article covers how to use the ARM Linux PMU driver to gather performance information.

PubNub's Ian Jennings demonstrates how to connect your Arduino to a mobile cellular network with a GSM/GPRS shield.There's a ton of tutorials out there on hooking your Arduino up to the LAN, whether it…

The main function of the compiler is to translate source code to machine code but, during the development of a project, we inevitably make some mistake.An important aspect of a good compiler is the capability…

At the recent Embedded World show in Nuremberg running from 24th to 26th Feb 2015 we saw the first MCU offerings from ARM’s silicon partners based on the high performance Cortex-M7, which is the latest…

You have probably all seen the announcements at GDC 2015 (going on right now). The big engine guys are battling it out for the attentions of developers large and small. Epic Games are giving away Unreal…

Recently I have been preparing one of the demos for ARM's booth at Embedded World 2015 (which occurred last week 24th - 26th February) to showcase ARM Development Studio 5’s (DS-5) debug and trace…

I have compiled all of the most important Arm 'technical' resources in one blog.

The ARM team have just come back from another successful Embedded World. For those who aren’t familiar, Embedded World is the biggest embedded trade show, attracting exhibitors and visitors from across…

Although the theme of EW was Internet of Things, there was so much to see at Embedded World (EW).  I was impressed with the breadth of embedded computing technologies.   If you are interested in my morning…

February has been an exciting period for ARM: from the announcement of new products for the Premium Mobile segment to the release of the new DS-5 v.5.20.2 DS-5 v5.20.2 includes ARM Compiler 6.01, the…

If you have followed my instructions on installing OpenCL™ on the Samsung Chromebook or on the Samsung Chromebook 2, you may be wondering what's next. Well, optimising your code for the ARM® Mali…

We all know that to get anywhere in life you need to have connections. A good connection will open the right doors for you and ensure that you reach your potential with the minimum of wasted energy. The…

As a member of the team for ARM IP Tooling, one of the key challenges we see engineers face on a daily basis in 2015 is the need for IP configurability in system integration. Increases in IP reuse, IP…

IntroductionIn Part 1 of this blog series (found here ) we introduced the ARM CoreLinkTM CCI-500 Cache Coherent Interconnect and described some of the new configurable features which are available over…

Most of you who’ve lived through the late ‘80s and ‘90s can’t distinctly recollect those Life Alert commercials with Mrs. Fletcher yelling, “Help! I’ve fallen, and I can’t get up!” Lo and behold, the ca…

Carbon cycle accurate models of Arm CPUs enable system performance analysis by providing access to the Performance Monitor Unit (PMU). Carbon models instrument the PMU registers and record PMU events…