• System Performance Analysis and the Arm Performance Monitor Unit (PMU)
    Carbon cycle accurate models of Arm CPUs enable system performance analysis by providing access to the Performance Monitor Unit (PMU). Carbon models instrument the PMU registers and record PMU events...
  • Using ARM Compiler 6 with Carbon Performance Analysis Kits (CPAKs)
    ARM has released DS-5 version 5.19 including the Ultimate Edition for ARMv8 to compile and debug 64-bit software. The The specified item was not found. Performance Analysis Kits (CPAKs) for the ARM Cortex...
  • Performance Analysis and Verification of SoC Interconnects
    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...
  • Arm Cortex-A76AE: A new age of high-performance processing with advanced safety
    The appetite for further autonomy in our vehicles is spurring advances in the underlying technology. As the number of sensors in and around the vehicle increases, so must the capability of CPUs for large...
  • Using the ARM Performance Monitor Unit (PMU) Linux Driver
    The Linux kernel provides an ARM PMU driver for counting events such as cycles, instructions, and cache metrics. My previous article covered how to access data from the PMU automatically within SoC...