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System optimization involves running Linux applications and understanding the impact on the hardware and other software in a system. It would be great if system optimization could be done by running benchmarks…

Yesterday, the Media Processing Group at ARM announced a new highly-efficient graphics processing unit (GPU), the ARM® Mali™-470, to enable smartphone-quality visuals on wearable and IoT devices: …

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…

Hi all, I can finally share with you some of the interesting work we have been doing around Cortex-M0 Design Start and FPGA. ARM has re-launched the Cortex-M Design Start program making it more easily…

This week Google launched their new Chromecast audio and encouraged you to switch to WiFi for your streaming audio. The shift in audio listening habits is real, content is no longer local, and streaming…

A London-based startup raises the concept of wearables design to a new level. BLOCKS, the brainchild of Ali Tahmasebzadeh and Serge Vasylechko, launched its Kickstarter program for a design considered…

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

If you missed the live Sensor Fusion and Contextual Awareness Hangout, you can watch the playback on the ARMFlix channel on Youtube here: You can find bios of all the participants on the intro blog he…

Hello all,My name is Dale Whinham, and I’m an intern within the Media Processing Group at ARM. I have been working with ARM over the summer to produce some additional sample code for the Mali SDK, which…

The winners of the ARM® Smart Product Design Competition each produced real world problem-solving products in just three months, all without prior experience with ARM tools.The top five finishers were…

More times than not, developers are faced with two bad options: either deliver a substandard product quickly, or reinvent the wheel and miss the market altogether. Luckily, one Santa Barbara-based startup…

Hardware interoperability is a long-standing issue. Ideally different computer and microcontroller boards expose their internals the way it fits their capabilities best. On the other hand, ideally peripherals…

Meet William Weatherholtz and team, who just won the inveneo solar-powered Micro-Data Center Design Challenge for their Micro Weather station design.

Last October we announced that ARM and our partners were creating a software ecosystem and new operating system for Internet-connected devices with standards support, low power and security as key goals…

Achieving the icy wall effect in the Ice Cave demoIce Cave is ARM’s latest demo. It shows that great graphical quality can be obtained in mobile devices with the use of conventional highly optimised rendering…

When creating an animation, it is paramount to have a very clear objective and vision of the asset and its function. How much is the object going to deform? How visible is it going to be in the scene?…

Android software frequently sags under the sheer weight of all the different devices it’s required to support. This is because developers can’t fine-tune the performance of their apps and games with the…

A few months ago, Norwegian sensor developer Novelda unveiled a pair of adaptive Atmel | SMART ATSAM4E16E powered sensor modules capable of monitoring human presence, respiration and other vital information…