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Chinese Version(中文版) :DAC 2016: 物联网设计需要强健的生态系统 We argue about the definition and scope of the Internet of Things (IOT) but what, to me, is inarguable is its profound impact on design. A market with a…

Thermal Issues Associated with Modern SoCs - How Hot is Hot?In this, the third instalment of the "Let's Talk PVT Monitoring" series Moortec CTO, Oliver King talks about the thermal issues associated with…

Late May sees the annual Pint of Science events take place in pubs (and other somewhat unusual venues) around Cambridge, the UK and indeed the rest of the world. Designed to combine the city’s love of…

Mali, the #1 shipping family of GPUs in the world, is celebrating 10 years with ARM this month! In honour of the occasion I’m going to take a look at some of the key milestones along the way and how Mali…

I just lost a few hours trying to play with the Z index between draw calls, in order to try Z-layering, as advised by peterharris in my question For binary transparency : Clip, discard or blend ?.However…

Some friends of ours at EagleSoC just launched a Kickstarter project for their cool PSoC 5LP-based development boards. These boards are a lower cost alternative to the Cypress Development Kits (CY8CKIT…

How is the Internet of Things landscape like San Francisco in the 1800’s? Well the gold rush gave opportunity to many who came to find their fortune. They sought to move beyond the established order through…

AUSTIN, Texas—Security is a balance between how much hackers want to gain by infiltrating a system and how much cost and complexity teams are willing to handle to prevent the hack. That was the message…

In this post I start the process of building an oscilloscope's DIY kit using Arm and STMicroelectronics components

Debugging Embedded Systems: the Problems and SolutionsThis article is the first in a series on the new debug features in SOMNIUM DRT.We all know from experience(and this is confirmed by many studies) that…

The trend for the electronics industry remains the same as ever; we want chips that are smaller, faster, more efficient. When you look at the trajectory of SoC designs you can see that the cost of integrating…

In previous blogs we covered an introduction to System Trace Macrocell (STM) concepts and terminology, and the STM Programmers' model with an example of how to generate efficient trace data. Once the…

In this blog, the second in a series, we explore the programmers' model for the ARM System Trace Macrocell. A previous blog covered basic concepts of the STM architecture and implementation. Example…

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 …