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While open source hardware has dramatically reduced the time and cost associated with product development, there are still a few speed bumps that Makers and designers must endure en route to taking their…

OverviewThe GNU ARM Eclipse project includes a set of open source Eclipse plug-ins and tools to create/build/debug/manage ARM (32-bits) and AArch64 (64-bits) applications and static/shared libraries, using…

Last week at TechCon 2015 in Santa Clara (California), ARM announced a new architecture and a new A-class low-power processor:ARMv8-M architecture: By offering security, enhanced scalability, and improved…

As presented in Bee Hayes-Thakore blog here, and in my preview blog here, the mbed Zone is one of the central pieces of this year's Techcon.The first thing when walking around the showroom, is seeing how…

There is an Arthur C. Clark quotation that states "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Call it ubiquitous, pervasive, ambient or IoT - but we've reached an intersection…

Heterogeneous Software Development By Stephen TheobaldARM-based platforms come in a variety of processor configurations, and these platforms now often have more than one ARM processor.  These multi-core…

Advances in processor architecture and connectivity technology have pushed embedded solutions into an increasing set of applications as demonstrated by ARM® partners shipping over 4 billion devices into…

ARM introduces TrustZone for ARMv8-M to bring mobile style security to microcontrollers and provides a new family of security subsystems: TrustZone CryptoCell I’m at Techcon in Santa Clara this week and…

Having just spent two days at the mHealth summit in Washington DC, a major theme of the event was how wearables were going to play a part in healthcare.

This brief introduction on nfc technology will help designers select the best connectivity implementation amongst the plethora of today’s wireless standards.

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…

Quick links to the highlights Press Release           mbed.com Developer Blog The full scoop There is a great deal of momentum around the ARM mbed IoT Device Platform since ARM Tech Con 2014, when we...

The announcement of the ARM®Cortex®-A35 processor today marks the beginning of a new family of ultra high efficiency application processors from ARM. So, what are the key features of Cortex-A35 and what…

Vertex interleavingRecently we were asked via the community whether there was an advantage in either interleaving or not interleaving vertex attributes in buffers. For the uninitiated, vertex interleaving…

What’s better than a bio-inspired, crawling robot? A spider bot that you can build yourself, that’s what. Locomotion mimicking nature has been around for a little while, but up until now has only been…

ABSTRACT The media is buzzing with articles every week about the benefits of deploying IoT systems across various industries. Some forecasts mention the trillions of dollars that will be saved on a global…

Semihalf is happy to present the first blog post from the planned series of topics covering interesting facts about porting FreeBSD to Armv8 architecture.

This blog post refers to the public ARM Mali Midgard r6p0 user-space binary drivers for GNU/Linux. The fbdev variant now has support for dma-buf using a standard ioctl, which I explain in detail.