For ARM Kickstarter Week I interviewed Kaido Kert about his brand new Kickstarter project called Blossom. I was personally interested in this project because I have a couple of highly dysfunctional sprinkler…
Frustrating isn't it? You're using your new smartphone or tablet to view pages on the Internet, watch a video or get the latest traffic information and the mobile communications just can't handle it.…
It’s fitting that we start ARM Kickstarter Week with a teardown of the Pebble watch. To me the Pebble was a breakthrough hardware product on Kickstarter and it broke new ground in two ways.
For our first interview during Kickstarter Week we decided to start at the beginning of hardware design and look at the development board choices for aspiring Kickstarters. This is a good news scenario…
It is difficult to summarize 20 years of development of the AMBA architecture, and I hope this short blog provides a simple overview of its function as well as a brief summary of the architecture's history…
In the newest version of Android, Lollipop (5.0), the virtual machine (VM) implementation has changed from Dalvik to ART. Like most VMs, ART has an interpreter for executing the bytecode of an application…
Embarrassingly ParallelIn the world of parallel computing when an algorithm can be easily split into multiple parallel jobs, where the output of each of the jobs doesn’t depend on the output of any other…
The first Carbon Performance Analysis Kit demonstrating the AMBA 5 CHI protocol has been released on Carbon System Exchange. The design features Cortex-A57 for AMBA 5 CHI and CoreLink CCN-504 Cache Coherent…
Qualcomm is excited about wearables for many reasons, not least of which is because most people use one phone per person but everybody can have multiple wearables so it’s a huge market.