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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…

ARM recently teamed up with the JBoss team from Red Hat to create a great open source Device to Cloud project for a hands-on workshop and hackathon at DevNation 2014 (part of the Red Hat Summit). Thanks…

Wearable technology is the most talked about next-generation trend, predicted to hugely disrupt the consumer electronics landscape - and ARM is right at the centre of its emergence and growth.

This week I look at how, and more importantly when, the Mali driver stack turns OpenGL ES API activity into the hardware workloads needed for rendering.

ARM is constantly providing updates to our DS-5 toolchain, and details of these updates are provided in the change log. When you purchase the tools, you will receive either a term or perpetual license…

Take a closer look at the code size of ARM’s Thumb instruction set against the microMIPS32 instruction set.

Register now to join design experts from Nuvation, Altera and ARM (stefanrosinger, CPU Product Manager) for this free SoC FPGA design webinar on May 8 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT.FPGAs leverage IP cores…

ARM has started what I find an interesting series of presentations giving facts about their products.Here is the list so far:Ten Things to Know About big.LITTLEFive things you didn't know about the ARM…

While the majority of Cortex-M processor-based microcontrollers are single core designs, some new microcontrollers with multiple Cortex-M processors are also available.