Eoin McCann

What is driving automotive body electronics to move from 16 to 32 bit architectures?

Soshun Arai, Arm and Mark Sykes, Recognition Technologies discuss the next generation of embedded voice for the automotive cockpit. Recognition Technologies is a partner of Arm and their RecoMadeEasy®…

The modern automotive cockpit is sophisticated and loaded with smart technologies; however, it has little value if the driver finds it difficult to use. Existing smart in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) interfaces…

One of the things that has struck me walking around the halls of Nuremberg Messe this week is that the classic definition of embedded computing needs to be updated as the market has evolved significantly…

As embedded devices become more prevalent and assume more responsibility in our daily lives, there is a need for functional safety to make sure that we are not put in danger by any faults that may occur…

(This is a wrap up of my thoughts from day 1 of Embedded World 2017. For highlights from day 2, check out EW17 day 2 blog: All about automotive) Guten tag from Nuremberg! The Embedded World conference…

ArmTechCon 2016 is nearly upon us, and there’s so much high quality technical content in the conference programme and exhibition floor that the only difficulty you’ll have is choosing what to attend

Functional safety is about ensuring that products operate safely and do so even when they go wrong. My colleague hopkins shares some insight on why you can’t choose to ignore it.

How is the Internet of Things landscape like San Francisco in the 1800’s? Well the gold rush gave opportunity to many who came to find their fortune. They sought to move beyond the established order through…

The trend for the electronics industry remains the same as ever; we want chips that are smaller, faster, more efficient. When you look at the trajectory of SoC designs you can see that the cost of integrating…

The modern smartphone has long since ceased to be just a tool for calling other people. Nowadays we use it as a remote control for our world; recording our experiences first hand, entertainment devices…

Chinese Version（中文版）：ARM 的系统验证：让合作伙伴能够构建更好的系统 (Huge thanks to the system validation team in Bangalore for providing me with all of the technical information here. Much appreciated!)Functional validation…

We demand more of our phones than ever. These demands have to be possible within the constraints of the mobile form factor and its power limits. Achieving these goals without a premium price tag is a challenge…

You may have assumed that Mobile World Congress is an event that is entirely dedicated to the smartphones and devices that have changed our lives over the past couple of decades.

Chinese Version中文版：世界移动通信大会的 6 大亮点 Mobile World Congress isn’t only about mobile phones, it’s all about the internet and the technologies that continue to enable the mobile revolution. It was my first…

Take one look at the outside world in 2016 and you will see that everything is becoming connected; our inanimate objects are growing smarter while our electronic devices are gaining ever more computing…

The beginning of a year brings with it the potential of many new things; resolutions, good habits and of course the new gadgets that promise to change our lives at CES. Amidst the glitz of promises of…

The amount of data we generate is growing exponentially. Gartner has predicted that in 2015 the global mobile data traffic will be a total of 52 billion terabytes, an increase of 59 percent on 2014. It…

When we look at what’s happening in consumer electronic devices, you can see there is a clear evolution path. The smartphone has become the central computing device for most people and it is now being…

ARM’s GIC (General Interrupt Controller) architecture provides an efficient and standardized approach for handling interrupts in multi-core ARM based systems.

In a lot of ways debug is similar to being a medical doctor. A patient comes in with some complaints and lists their symptoms, but you need to run tests in order to properly diagnose the issue before focusing…