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Just over 6 years ago, in October 2007, ARM introduced a product that had the potential to change the world. Not just in one market (like mobile), but nearly all known semiconductor markets – Looking back…

IntroductionRecently I presented “Coherent Interconnect Technology Supports Exponential Data Flow Growth” at the Linley Processor conference in Santa Clara, CA where I announced a new ARM coherent interconnect…

IntroductionSmartphone and tablets are on the rise the increasing performance and convenience of these devices is definitely showing impact on the traditional PC market. Tablet sales will surge 53.4%,…

Memories are increasingly occupying more area in today’s SoCs. So, it is imperative to have an early estimate of the total power consumed by the memories. Memory power consumption can be divided into two…

This document gives 10 tips on how best to use the FPU on the Arm Cortex-M4 processor.

A question that I am asked many times is – what is the fundamental difference between the high efficiency, mid range and the high performance application processors in the ARM Cortex family? The simple…

1 - Fast adoption The Cortex-M0+ processor was announced in March 2012, with two lead partners, namelyFreescale and NXP, who went public with their plans to release MCUs based on this new processor. These…

Over the past few months, I’ve been working on a Real Time Operating System (RTOS) for the ARM® Cortex®-A9 processor, ported from the Keil® RTX RTOS for Cortex-M series of processors. In this blog, I’d…

This is the third of three blogs I've written around the announcement of the new ARMv8-R architecture for real-time embedded processors.  Simon Craske, our Embedded Processor Architect, and myself will…

Abstract The complex task of selecting which processor core to license can be simplified by using a standard check list approach to evaluate all relevant criteria. This white paper goes through such a…

You might have come across some pieces I've written recently on the ARMv7 architecture.Navigating the Cortex MazeARMv7-A - Power to the PeopleARMv6-M vs ARMv7-M - Unpacking the MicrocontrollersI've…

In recent articles, I’ve overviewed the ARMv7 architecture and then looked in more detail at ARMv7-A (ARMv7-A - Power to the People) and ARMv6-M/ARMv7-M (ARMv6-M vs ARMv7-M - Unpacking the Micro…

This is the first in a series of blogs covering the migration towards ARM technology in the rapidly evolving telecom-infrastructure market. A lot has been written recently regarding the challenges facing…

Having previously introduced the ARMv8-R architecture, it’s time to look more closely into its new technology and explain some of the benefits it will bring.  I’ll try to convey the key concepts simply…

This year’s ARM TechCon conference in Santa Clara sees ARM disclosing details of its next processor architecture; ARMv8-R.  This eighth-generation ARM architecture is already established as …

I often receive questions such as “How can I render shadows with OpenGL® ES 2.0 without an available depth texture extension?”; “How can I render a simple text with OpenGL ES 2.0?”; or “Simple text rendering…

This content was initially posted 16 July 2013 on blogs.arm.comIn the previous blog post we introduced VIXL - A Dynamic Code Generation Toolkit for ARMv8. This blog post will show you how to use the VIXL…

This content was initially posted 10 July 2013 on blogs.arm.comWe are pleased to announce the release of VIXL, a dynamic code generation toolkit for ARMv8 that we hope will enable JIT creators to rapidly…

In 2011 I attended the ARM Global Engineering Conference, where I saw a presentation about a new algorithm used in texture compression. I expected it to be about colour space conversions and perceptual…

At the Develop 2012 conference in Brighton I gave a talk about how we achieved some of the effects in our brand new (at the time) demo Timbuktu. As I repeated this presentation at a number of developer…

This document describes an approach for rendering shadows in realtime for mobile devices using OpenGL® ES 2.0 which does not support depth texture unless the OES_depth_texture extension is available.