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In this blog I look at system design patterns useful in the construction of IoT architecture solutions, with a focus on common patterns for interoperability.

Freescale's booth at Maker Faire featured a large 4320 LED video panel, controlled by a single Teensy 3.1 board powered by Freescale's Kinetis K20 MCU.

I didn't get a chance to participate in the ARM Community Step Challenge at Mobile World Congress, alas. ( ARM Step Challenge: “Who is the ‘hardest working’ at MWC?”) But I…

At Maker Faire in San Mateo Arduino and Atmel announced the Arduino Zero, powered by an Atmel ARM Cortex-M0+ based microcontroller. The Arduino Zero is a great tool for prototyping, hobbyists and makers…

With the first Cortex-A53 based SoCs due to ship in the coming months, and Cortex-A57 based designs to follow early next year, ARM gave us a quick update on performance expectations for both cores. Given…

If the IoT isn’t just hype, then how is it different from M2M? Why are decoupled devices and permissionless innovation key for the IoT to succeed?

The University Programs of ARM® and Xilinx® recently collaborated to produce an ARM-Xilinx SoC Lab-in-a-Box One-day Workshop based on the freely accessible ARM Cortex®-M0 DesignStart™ Processor…

OMA Lightweight M2M protocol is a device management protocol developed by Open Mobile Alliance. Technically, it is a communication protocol for use between client software on a M2M device and  server software…

Previous blog in the series: Mali Performance 2: How to Correctly Handle Framebuffers This week I'm finishing off my slight diversion into the land of application framebuffer management with an analysis…

I attended Cable Show 2014 where I presented a demo that integrated several smart light devices with an interactive television application. In this post I'll give an overview of the demo system.

Note this blog is only valid for Linaro distributions up to 2014. Newer distributions support AEMv8 Base Model as supplied with DS-5 5.24 and later. For information on this model, see here.For instructions…

As the number of processors and I/O masters in an SoC continues to rise the need for an efficient and easy to design interconnect becomes critical. An interconnect must provide sufficient throughput and…

Today we posted a new video tutorial on the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) and related technology for discovery and semantics from the IETF. In this tutorial I cover the background and motivation…

Previously, I explained how to create a minimal, single-core ARM® Cortex™-A15 system running Linux®. In this article I will update the hardware design to use a dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 CPU and run SMP…

Typically when teaching a class about embedded C programming, one of the early questions we ask is: Where does the memory come from for function arguments?

At SIGGRAPH 2014 we presented the benefits of the OpenGL ES 3.0 API and the more newly introduced OpenGL ES 3.1 extension. Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression format (ASTC) is one of the biggest introductions…

Smart sensors are far from a myth, it is already used in million of devices (e.g. your mobile phone might already contain several smart sensors). Traditionally a number of smart sensors are designed with…

The promise of IoT has heralded a bold new era where major technology corporations are no longer afraid to increase the market size forecasts with increments of 10s of billions. But what does that really…

Experts from ARM share insights and differing viewpoints on the big issues facing wearable developers of software applications. Software developers must address many domains to successfully design the…

Before we do a dive into the ACPI standard, let’s go back to what the main goal is for firmware. Utopia is to have a universal firmware solution which can boot and support any Operating System (open, propriety…

We (The specified item was not found.) have just completed our first major release of 2014. It includes significant new content and many bug fixes to all products. Today, I would like to highlight the…