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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 …

The end of the year is approaching, but I’d like to have one last delta before taking some time off. PowerPC vs. Arm, seems like an appropriate stand-off.

This blog focuses on some of the hardware innovations and changes that are relevant to shared virtual memory and cache coherency, which are components of the HSA hardware specification.

Consider this: The performance of smartphones, nearly all of which are powered by ARM processors, has grown by 100x since 2009. One hundred times in seven years! With that has emerged entirely new functionality…

By now you would have read the news about the latest ARM® Cortex®-A73 processor and Mali™-G71 GPU. These new processors allow for more performance in an ever thinner mobile device, and…

Simply put, security for Embedded  IoT devices is about protecting assets from malicious attack. Typically this protection is thought about in terms of keeping some assets, such as crypto keys, secret…

Mali-G71 is the latest and greatest offering in the Mali high-performance family of GPUs. Built on new Bifrost architecture, Mali-G71 represents a whole new level of high-end mobile graphics capabilities…

When the first car rolled off his production line in 1913, Henry Ford would have already envisioned just how prolific the automobile would become. However, would he have foreseen the extent to which monitors…

Chinese Version中文版：展望计算机视觉的未来 The Internet of Things began to mature in 2016 and we started to see evidence of how technology can help us to engage more powerfully with our world. By allowing machines…

This is a paper published in Embedded World 2015, covering various areas about how chip designers can improve the reliability of a SoC (System-on-Chip) design. It also cover various functional safety…

Let’s see how to write a simple C application for the LTPP. Here is the list of steps: get the cross-compiler, install the SDK, build a program, and load it into the board.

The hardware requirements of VR seemed to be an unknown quantity, there was always the argument that more GPU performance and CPU performance would translate to better VR. This has turned out to be partially…

SAN MATEO, Calif.—The Maker movement has exploded thanks to forces like open system software and hardware and accessible, affordable components and design tools. Now, the great minds behind Arduino have…

So, another bug I had to deal with NativeActivity and for which I have no clear solution but a workaround for.The problem I compiled a version of libnative-activity.so that depends on my own library, libmyy…

With a little space between myself and the Bay Area Maker Faire, I want to follow up on some of the themes I explored in my previous blog on industrialization of Maker platforms.

I passed half a day hunting weird bugs on Android's Native Activity.The one I'll talk about here is if glCreateShader suddenly returns 0 and glError sends you back 0x502 (GL_INVALID_OPERATION - 1282).I…

As a world leading IP company ARM is passionate about protecting and promoting the ideas, innovations and skills required to produce next generation tech. A large part of that involves supporting the teaching…