• Arm and Synopsys Extend Collaboration and Kick off WW Workshop Series
    Arm and Synopsys just announced an extension of the long-standing collaboration between the companies , including a multi-year subscription agreement for access to Arm IP (CPU and GPU cores, system IP...
  • An Advanced Timing Sign-off Methodology for the SoC Design Ecosystem
    The System-on-a-Chip (SoC) ecosystem spans the gamut of designs from high-end servers to low-power mobile consumer segments. A large and heterogeneous set of players (foundries, IP vendors, SoC integrators...
  • Hey Hobbyists, dust off your breadboards - DIP package is back!
    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. Recently NXP announced the new additions of the...
  • Sometimes Hardware Details Matter in ARM Embedded Systems Programming
    Last week, I received the call for papers for the Embedded World Conference for 2015 . The list of topics is a good reminder of how broad the world of embedded systems is. It also reminded me how overloaded...
  • Functional Safety on Arm – Beyond Automotive
    Over the last two years functional safety has become a “hot” topic, attracting the attention of the media and large investments from both venture capitalists and established computing businesses. They...