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Taking a major step forward for advanced-node semiconductor design, ARM and Cadence recently (April 4, 2013) announced the first implementation of an ARM® CortexTM-A57 processor on the TSMC 16nm FinFET…

Do you love your smartphone? Is your tablet the best computer you've ever owned? If you're like me, and nearly a billion other folks on the plant, the answer is a passionate YES! The evidence is everywhere…

More than 3400 product announcements. 700 applications. Less than 20 winners selected for 2012.It was a great honor for the ARM® Cortex™-A57 and A53 processors based on the ARMv8 architecture to receive…

It’s been a year since ARM announced the first details of the new ARMv8 architecture with its support for 64-bit virtual addressing. This comparatively early announcement allowed the architecture…

Big gives the impression of being large as in size, height, width, or amount: a big house; a big quantity. We've heard of big brother, big bang, or the notorious wrapper B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls (after…

In the world of the System on Chip (SoC) end users have come to expect a richer web experience, full HD video, full HD gaming and sophisticated applications leading to embedded processors becoming more…

Working at Arm, I often have a unique and early vantage point to trends that are shaping the semiconductor market. One of the most interesting emerging trends is Bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) process technology…

I may only weigh in at just over half a square millimeter on die, but I can handle a heavy workload and I pack quite a processing punch, and frankly I'm tired of the lack of respect I get as a "LITTLE…

With the ARM Cortex-A50 series processors, ARM has introduced a "big" and "LITTLE" processor pair that is 64-bit capable. What does this mean for big.LITTLE software?

At last the time has finally come when I can talk about AMBA 5 - the next generation of Arm interface standard.  So, what's new?

As the adoption of Arm big.LITTLE processing spreads there are a number of common questions which have been raised. I'd like to use this blog to answer some of the more common queries.

The System-on-a-Chip (SoC) ecosystem spans the gamut of designs from high-end servers to low-power mobile consumer segments. A large and heterogeneous set of players (foundries, IP vendors, SoC integrators…

Back in April, I wrote about how Atrenta - an ARM Connected Community Partner - was helping to tame the SoC design problem with early power, performance and area or ePPA technology.  ePPA holds great promise…

During the ARM® -Mentor® seminar Tuesday, July 17, the nearly 100 attendees heard about the goals and ambitions of the long-term partnership between Mentor and ARM to improve testing of ARM cores…

At just under 14 minutes, with a top speed of 300km/hour, my commute to an airport on public rail transportation has never been faster! I wasn't on the high-speed public rail systems that typically come…

It's often said that as one gets older, time appears to pass faster and faster. As proof of that it seems only yesterday that I had a full head of hair and ARM launched big.LITTLE. In fact it's been…

Bringing test patterns for your ARM core or other core-level blocks together for chip-level test of your SoC can present significant challenges. Whether your core-level test patterns are scan-based or…

If you've watched any sporting event on television lately, you've seen the pressure put on referees and umpires.  They have to make split-second decisions in real-time, having viewed ultra-high-speed action…

It is entirely appropriate that ARM will announce technical details of its latest hard macro product, the Cortex™-A15 MP4 Hard Macro for TSMC 28HPM node at COOL Chips XV, the IEEE Symposium on Low…

Power, performance and area or "PPA," as it is called, has become a universally interesting topic to system-on-chip (SoC) designers around the world.  Atrenta -- an ARM Connected Community…

Now available design strategies and documentation to ease the migration to an ARM platform - From one programmer to another.  You could say I'm an "Acorn boy" - I cut my programming teeth on personal computers…