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After the video of my most recent Arm-powered Android LEGO Speedcuber robot became so popular, I thought that it would be a while before I was involved in creating another. I should have learned from previous…

The 180nm node of today is nothing like the 180nm node of 2004. In fact the market opportunity for the 180nm node is bigger today than at any time in the past.

One of the key challenges faced by the semiconductor industry today is balancing the growing, yet conflicting demand for mobile devices featuring both high performance and long battery life. Last week…

You don't need a graphic like this one to know that multi-core SoC designs are here to stay.  This one happens to be based on ARM's AMBA® 4 ACE architecture, which is particularly effective…

System-level Analysis with Performance Counters - This is my last post of this series (see Timeline analysis, Smart software profiling and Benchmarking if you missed previous posts), and you would expect…

Benchmarking -  ARM DS-5™ Streamline is designed for software and system analysis (see previous posts on Timeline analysis and software profiling), and that is where all its power features apply…

Smart software profilingFollowing up from previous post (Software Optimization: Four real-life Streamline use cases (Part 1): Timeline analysis), I will talk about the most basic use of ARM DS-5™ Stre…

Here at ARM's System Design Division almost every time we introduce someone to the ARM® DS-5™ Streamline performance analyzer we end up being asked, so how much faster can my system run…

An SMM is a Soft Macrocell Model which is an FPGA implementation of an ARM processor, built with ARM development boards. Life with an SMM, would be much easier, at least from an engineer's perspective…

Using power management features of complex SoCs (system on chip) can be difficult due to the complexity of the design and multiple power domains. In this blog I discuss the power management hardware features…

Smartphones are now one of the most important consumer electronics devices globally. Smartphone volume shipments are growing at a very healthy rate and are expected to exceed a billion units per annum…

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…