With the arrival of Windows RT and the opening of Microsoft App Store, you can now develop Windows Store Apps on ARM platforms and make them available to 200+ markets via the Microsoft App Store. If you…
Running Linux on the Series 3 Chromebook
Last month Google and Samsung released the first commercially available product using the ARM® Cortex™-A15 SoC design: the new Series 3 Chromebook. Not only does the Chromebook have the new…
Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE hardware from ARM
I would like to share some news around one of the products we recently released, the V2P-CA15x2_A7x3. This is a new member of the Versatile ™ Express CoreTile family and is the first ARM big…
ARMv8 Tools - Everything You Need To Develop for AArch64
The introduction of a new architecture as significant as ARMv8, or AArch 64, requires careful consideration of the impact to existing software! The good news is, the new architecture is compatible with…
ARM technology software newbie? Try the Cortex A-Series Programmer's Guide
The ARM architecture has been used for many years in mobile phones and electronic devices, but it is only relatively recently that the architecture has diversified into being used in laptops, tablets and…
CoreSight delivers debug and trace for tomorrow's systems
Debugging and optimizing software is always a demanding job. As today's systems become more complex the task of providing a suitable debug and trace solution becomes increasingly challenging - yet it…
Memory access ordering part 3: Memory access ordering in the Arm Architecture
This post goes into the juicy bits of what memory access ordering actually means and how this is handled in the Arm architecture.
Arm Fundamentals: Introduction to understanding Arm processors
This article is the first of a series on Arm fundamentals that will introduce various topics to help you get more familiar with the Arm architecture.
Page Colouring on ARMv6 (and a bit on ARMv7)
Page colouring is sometimes used as an optimization but as a result of the cache architecture some ARMv6 processors actually require the allocator use page colouring. This article will explain why the…
Coding for Neon - Part 5: Rearranging Vectors
When writing code for Neon, you may find that sometimes, the data in your registers are not quite in the correct format for your algorithm. We explore this in further detail here.
Debug and performance analysis of Linaro images with ARM Development Studio-5
In this article we will go through the steps required to setup Linux on the PandaBoard using files supplied from Linaro and also the further steps required to setup Linux for use with Development Studio…
RISC versus CISC Wars in the PostPC Eras - Part 2
In my first blog, we examined gave the historical context of the instruction set battles of ARM and x86, covering the RISC-CISC Wars in the PrePC Era and the PC Era. This blog covers Round 3, the PostPC…
RISC versus CISC Wars in the PrePC and PC Eras - Part 1
This two-part blog gives a historical perspective on the ARM vs. 80x86 instruction set competition for three eras: PrePC (late 1970s/early 1980s), PC (mid 1980s to mid 2000s), and PostPC (late 2000s onward…
Wealth of knowledge found at ARM Techcon: Linux, Android & development tools
The 2010 ARM Technology Conference (Techcon) is taking place in Santa Clara next week. A large number of companies will be presenting their solutions to support development and optimization of products…
Going Maverick - Ubuntu 10.10 for ARM
Wow it's that time again; our 4th release of Ubuntu on ARM is upon us. In the past we have provided a Freescale iMX51 image, a Marvell Dove image and a TI OMAP 3 image for Beagle Boards. This cycle…
Locks, SWPs and two Smoking Barriers (Part 2)
In the last article, I explained how to modify SWP code to make use of compiler intrinsics. Using intrinsics hides the underlying detail needed to use the load and store exclusive instructions (LDREX…
Locks, SWPs and two Smoking Barriers
Before ARMv6, the main synchronisation mechanism was the SWP instruction. SWP has two aspects, in a uniprocessor system it allows the read and write operations not to be interrupted between them. In…
云中漫步：ARM携生态系统伙伴打造智能未来
ARM年度技术研讨会（二）大宽带时代即将到来，高清视频业务首当其冲? 这是今天在深圳举行的第三场ARM ®年度技术研讨会上，海思家庭解决方案总监霍雨涛先生带来的精彩演讲。近年来，高清电视（HDTV）不断加速在全球蔓延。据Informa预测，到2012年，全球拥有高清电视机的用户将达到2.8亿,占全球电视用户的四分之一。机顶盒已服务于3000万用户，全线产品均采用ARM处理器系列的海思，其终端解决方案…
物联网时代，后PC时代：ARM无处不在
什么是产业最大的变化？后PC时代的到来！计算设备及用户之互动方式，正在经历着重大转变。平板电脑和智能手机为用户带来了台式机和笔记本所缺乏的普遍性、休闲性、亲密性与身体互动性。ARM®中国总裁吴雄昂先生在上海以这样的论述为一年一度的ARM技术研讨会揭开了帷幕。而全球总裁布朗先生关于 “伙伴关系将机遇转化为成功 Partnerships turn opportunities into success”…