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  • Cortex-M1 for Xilinx FPGAs, max. clock frequency?

    Hello,

    I have already played around with the Cortex-M1 reference designs for Xilinx Spartan and Artix boards, can you give an indication of what your maximum target frequency for the processor IP core is? Are the referenced 100 MHz a good design practice…

  • FreeRTOS, Peripheral Modules with DesignStart FPGA

    Hello all,

    I have 2 questions regarding the Cortex M IP cores for Xilinx FPGAs (M1 on the Arty A7/S7, provided by ARM)

    1) I am new to ARM DesignStart and am looking to use freeRTOS with the Cortex M1 which project which has been provided for the Arty A7…

  • Expanding Innovation: Bringing Arm to Programmable FPGA

    Today Arm and Xilinx announced a collaboration that makes FPGA-based innovation faster, easier and more diverse: Arm DesignStart FPGA. You can read the announcement here. 

    The design possibilities for embedded and IoT are wider and more accessible than…

  • New Research Enablement Kit: SoC Design and Prototyping

    Arm Research Enablement are pleased to announce the release of our second Research Enablement Kit: SoC Design and Prototyping.

    Arm Cortex-M CPUs are designed to meet the needs of tomorrow’s smart and connected embedded applications and are part of the…

  • DesignStart Pro: APB on FPGA via Quartus Prime

    Hello,

    I try to implement the Cortex-M3 processor on an FPGA via Quartus Prime. I set up the SSE050 Subsystem and tried to connect several peripherals to the board. I want to test the functionality with a uVision project lighting some LEDs. To have access…

  • DesignStart Eval on Terasic DE10-Standard Board

    Hello,

    For my bachelor thesis I have to implement the RTL-Code of the Cortex-M3 in the DE-10 Standard Board.
    The FPGA on the Terasic DE-10 Standard is the Cyclone V  5CSXFC6D6F31C6.

    If I try to compile the ".sof" file of the Eval package in Quartus Prime…

  • FAQ: Is Quartus Prime Partial Reconfiguration license required to customize/build Arm DesignStart FPGA image?

    Older versions of Cortex-M0 DesignStart required obtaining an Intel® Altera® Quartus Prime partial reconfiguration license. However this is no longer necessary with the latest DesignStart packages. See below for further information.

    Cortex-M0…

  • MPS2+ Expansion ports possible frequency and usage

    We started working on a daughter card we want to connect via the expansion ports, and we trying to understand the 52 IOs of the two expansion ports frequency capabilities (Board aspect) , is there any information regarding it ?

    Are there any schematics…

  • 社区用户何老师精心制作视频课程

    大家好,

    很多朋友可能知道,我们ARM社区用户藏龙卧虎,各有各的高招。他们自己还有很多宝贵的资源,可以分享给其他用户。

    今天,我推荐一下社区用户何老师的视频课程。

    何老师(何宾)是一位北京的大学教师,对于处理器,FPGA和电子科学非常了解,熟悉,他自己也为学生上课,业余时间编写ARM相关教材,在行业内很有知名度。

    最近,何老师告诉我们他分享了他的课程视频,给大家免费观看。

    希望对大家学习ARM有一定的帮助。

    以下是课程链接:

    http://edawiki.com/

    此课程适合学习Cortex-M0处理器…

  • Lots of ARM-related content at SNUG Silicon Valley 2017

    I'm getting excited for the annual Synopsys User's Group Meeting - SNUG Silicon Valley, which promises to be an excellent and well attended event as usual.

    It's a great place to learn the latest about Synopsys tools, IP and methodology from your…

  • question about bootloader for ARMv8 vexpress64 FPGA board

    hi, experts:

    It seems ARM Ltd recommended UEFI firmware as default bootloader for ARMv8 architecture.

    And not find any released ARMv8 CPU development board.

    So, I want to buy an ARMv8 vexpress64 FPGA board.

    I have 2 questions about this development board…

  • ARM in the World of FPGA-Based Prototyping

    SemiWiki recently published a book on FPGA-based prototyping titled “PROTOTYPICAL: The Emergence of FPGA-Based Prototyping for SoC Design.” Among other things the book explores ARM’s role in FPGA prototyping technology. Below is a excerpt from the…

  • Exploring Total Cost of Ownership: Single Board vs SOM Solution

    Following on the heels of a recent post highlighting trade-offs in HDI technology and layer count of a single-board versus a som solution and how that drives bare_board costs, we wanted to take the next step and examine the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO…

  • ARM enables IOT with Beetle Platform

    Introduction

    ARM and its Partners share a vision where the creation and deployment of commercial, standards-based IoT devices at scale is as easy possible. The ARM mbed IoT Device Platform enables a software ecosystem that helps make it as easy as possible…

  • The three embedded market trends you should be considering

    EmbeddedMarketTrends.PNGWe at Critical Link have worked on some pretty complex applications for nearly 20 years, and so we’re exposed in real time to trends in the embedded systems market. Our work creating mitysom system-on-modules, custom baseboards, and complete ground…

  • 0 to 25 board partners in under 2 years,  Zynq delivers

    As we started to research ARM based Embedded Computing Board (ECB) manufacturers for our Embedded Computing Board (ECB) Resource Guide Dave Tokic of Xilinx told us that there are now 25 companies making ECBs based on the Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC. 

    If you…

  • SoC FPGA Design: Webinar with Nuvation, ARM, and Altera

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    Register now to join design experts from Nuvation, Altera and ARM (stefanrosinger, CPU Product Manager) for this free SoC FPGA design webinar on May 8 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT.

    FPGAs leverage IP cores to reduce engineering and system integration efforts…

  • ADAS – A Small Introduction of the Future of Automobiles

    There is currently a lot of talk around Advance Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in the car market. Car makers are trying to differentiate their vehicles to end customers by implementing more and more so called driving assistant features in the name of…

  • Streamline profiler: Revealing reality

    Streamline, the profiling tool in DS-5, is a powerful tool for analysing system behaviour with proven results at both macro (system level interactions) and micro (CPU code hotspots) levels.

    Mental models

    Streamline is also an excellent way to explore a…

  • Prototyping of ARM Cortex-M Processor systems in FPGA

    If you are a microcontroller / SoC / ASIC designer working on Cortex-M processor based systems looking for an FPGA board for prototyping, I have a great news for you: ARM has released a new FPGA board called the Cortex-M Prototyping System.

    Key featu…

  • How FPGA boards help to validate ARM processors

    In this article I will explain how ARM® uses FPGA boards during the development of new cores to validate the design and how this technique is particularly useful to reduce project time and costs, giving an effective competitive advantage in the market…

  • Embedded World 2014 - ARM Cortex-M Processor based System Prototyping on FPGA

    Several people have asked me for the following paper I presented in Embedded World 2014:

    ARM Cortex-M Processor based System Prototyping on FPGA

    Abstract

    Many SoC designers need to design FPGA prototypes of Cortex-M series processor-based systems for…