Arm Blog

When I first saw the name of the series from Nordic Semiconductor, namely nRF51, I thought to myself "Oh God! These guys are doing great RF, but still use the good old 8051 processor -- what a shame!"…

Many recent licensees of ARM Cortex-M  are new to the ARM architecture.  For them, a design kit that is tailor-made for Cortex-M processors and delivers a short learning curve, reduced time to market and…

Really, it is a blast from the past. Soon you can get ARM Cortex-M0 microcontrollers in a DIP28 package, along with SOP20, TSSOP20 and TSSOP28 packages.

2012 has been like the last few years: very rich in new ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers as well as collateral and tools making it easier to make the most of them. Here is a summary of the year so far, if…

GNU Tools for ARM embedded processors, or GCC ARM Embedded for short, version 4.7 is now available.

The ARM Cortex-A7 processor and big.LITTLE processing announcement are game changers for the "always on' home networking and consumer applications. Developers can now choose the right size processor for…

This week sees the launch on the Cortex-M0+ processor-based Freescale Kinetis L family of MCUs just two months after the official launch of this latest addition to the Cortex-M processor series. The…

I take a deeper look at NXP's mini-tiny-LPC800. With NXP being one of our lead-partners on the ARM Cortex-M0+, and also previously on the Cortex-M0, I was really excited to see what they came up.

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When I was asked how OpenGL® ES 3.0 would improve my buddy's ARM® Mali™-T604 powered Nexus 10 I sighed, looking in exasperation at my unknowing friend. How could he, a self-proclaimed…

ARM's new video processor was publicly launched at Computex recently and we introduced a bunch of new technology in that device. Here I'd like to discuss just one of these new features:  …

H.265, more popularly known as HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding), is the newest addition to the long list of video codecs that have evolved in the last two decades. HEVC promises improved video quality…

Last year I had an opportunity to cover the award-winning products based on ARM MaliTM-T604 including Google's Chromebook and Nexus 10. Since then, those devices have reached millions of consumers…

It's time we deal with the measurement of compute performance in GPUs. My latest ARM blog covers the issue of Floating-point Operations Per Second - FLOPS, or GFLOPS or TFLOPS. …

When we talk about GPU performance we usually talk about speed. But, In my next few blogs, I talk about benchmarking the quality of GPU floating-point arithmetic.

This is the second in a series of blogs about floating-point quality in GPUs.

ASTC supports both High Dynamic Range and three-dimensional texture compression. I show how these features work and what effects they can be used for in content.

We recently added support for this extension to the OpenGL ES drivers for the Midgard architecture GPUs. In this post I will write about how this extension can be used to improve error reporting and make…

The last few days have been a busy time in the graphics world with the great and the good collecting in sunny LA for SIGGRAPH 2012. The announcements kicked off early Monday morning with Khronos announcing…

Today at SIGGRAPH, Khronos announced the latest incarnation of graphics API targeted at embedded and mobile development – OpenGL ES 3.0. The new API brings many features that are present in the latest…

ARM has just announced their submission to Khronos for their OpenCL 1.1 Full Profile conformance tests results for the MaliTM-T604 GPU[1]. This makes ARM the first GPU IP Vendor to submit results for Full…

In part one of this two-part post, I wrote about the first part of Tom Olson's paper from High Performance Graphics 2012. We saw how Bounded Integer Sequence Encoding allows ASTC  to have a finely…

I blogged before that I was going to speak at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit. Yesterday in Bellevue I announced that ARM was joining the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation as a founder…

ARM's GPU architects and engineers regularly push the envelope in mobile graphics technology, which is why the latest Mali GPU cores offer such a unique combination of best-in-class graphics performance…

Just a day ago we've lifted the veil off the ARM® Mali™-T658, the second Mali GPU based on the Midgard architecture that we launched a year ago. It's been brewing in our labs next to the…