Arm-based processors have traditionally dominated the mobile world of smartphones, tablets, and embedded IoT devices. However, in recent years, the increasing power demands of data centers, and in particular…
Smart Chips, Smart World: Future Chips Forum
Rob Aitken is an Arm Research Fellow. Here, he shares his thoughts and key takeaways from the Future Chips Forum, held last December in Beijing.
Arm Research Summit 2019: Catch Up and Highlights
The fourth annual Arm Research Summit, and the first in the US, held in Austin, Texas, created a collaborative space for academics, researchers and industry experts globally to discuss complex computing…
SMARTER: A Smarter-Device-Manager for Kubernetes on the Edge
Part three of the SMARTER blog, smarter-device-manager enables containers deployed using Kubernetes to access devices available on the node. A capability essential for IoT applications running at the edge…
Making Helium: Going around in circles (3/4)
The ability to perform computation on data efficiently is only half the story when it comes to new Arm Helium technology. Equally important is the ability to access and store this data in memory.
There and back again… A Retrospective on Arm High Performance Computing Research
Arm is changing the landscape of HPC today. Following an exciting ISC 2019, and recent ecosystem announcements set to deliver energy-efficient supercomputing based on Arm technology across three continents…
Can we Bury our Scaling Problems with Buried Power Rails and Back-side Power Delivery?
In the current technology scaling paradigm, semiconductor device physics and conductor parasitics are fundamentally limiting microprocessor performance beyond the 7nm process node. There are two major…
New Research Enablement Kit: SoC Design and Prototyping
Our second Research Enablement Kit is available now: SoC Design and Prototyping using Arm DesignStart. Arm DesignStart is the fastest route to designing and prototyping custom SoCs. This Research Enablement…
Sparse Architecture Search (SpArSe): Democratizing and Enabling TinyML on Arm M-class
Microcontrollers (MCUs) are the ubiquitous computer of our time, being tiny, cheap, and low power. Often powered by using solar cell, they are in your watch, fridge, and your car will contain about thirty…
Creating Minimal Docker Images for the Edge
Carefully crafting your Dockerfiles proves to be not only important for minimizing your container attack surface, but also for speeding up the deployment times of applications running both in the cloud…
SMARTER: A smarter-cni for Kubernetes on the Edge
The decreasing cost and power consumption of intelligent, interconnected, and interactive devices at the edge of the internet are creating opportunities to instrument our cities, factories, farms and environment…
Making Temporal Prefetchers Practical: The MISB Prefetcher
Temporal data prefetching usually introduces huge on- and off-chip storage and traffic overheads, making them impractical. However, a novel solution proposed by Arm Research and The University of Texas…
Wireless 3D Integration – Making Stacking Silicon as Easy as Stacking Lego (1/2)
The growth of the Internet of Things has brought about a range of new challenges for IC designers, now IoT devices are required to perform a range of different functions, within strict power and volume…
Making Helium: Bringing Amdahl's law to heel (4/4)
In previous posts we've looked at how Arm Helium technology handles vector instructions. The problem is that whenever code is vectorized, it’s not long before Amdahl's law sneaks up on you! Amdahl's law…
Arm Research Summit: Five Years of Innovation and Collaboration
The Arm Research Summit has been engaging academics, industry experts and researchers since 2016, promoting collaboration in a research led environment. Overtime the Summit has grown and developed, seeing…
Enabling hardware accelerator and SoC design space exploration
Fixed functional hardware accelerators have been researched for many years, and it is well understood that they improve the performance and energy efficiency of a system. Integrating hardware accelerators…
TinyML Applications Require New Network Architectures
Researchers have studied neural network compression for quite some time. However, the need for always on compute has led to a recent trend towards executing these applications on even smaller IoT devices…
10 things you should know about LwM2M
LightweightM2M is a device management protocol designed for sensor networks and the demands of a machine-to-machine (M2M) environment. The OMA SpecWorks LwM2M v1.1 specification was released earlier this…
M0N0: An Arm Research platform for N-ZERO sensors
Changing the batteries: A routine task just about manageable if it is needed once a month on household devices. But what if your devices are deployed in their thousands in remote, inaccessible locations…
SCALE-Sim: A cycle-accurate NPU simulator for your research experiments
Architecture simulators are a key tool in the computer architecture toolbox. They provide a convenient model of real hardware at a level of abstraction that makes them faster and more flexible than low…
A Year of Discovery: Arm Research 2019
2019 was yet another year of incredible technology discovery for Arm Research. Inspiring advancements have been made across the research community, and Arm Research has contributed to this. Our teams have…