Here at ARM's System Design Division almost every time we introduce someone to the ARM® DS-5™ Streamline performance analyzer we end up being asked, so how much faster can my system run…
ARM Versatile Express Cortex-A57 Soft Macrocell Model
An SMM is a Soft Macrocell Model which is an FPGA implementation of an ARM processor, built with ARM development boards. Life with an SMM, would be much easier, at least from an engineer's perspective…
Power Management with big.LITTLE: A technical overview
Using power management features of complex SoCs (system on chip) can be difficult due to the complexity of the design and multiple power domains. In this blog I discuss the power management hardware features…
ARM Cortex-A...How Hard Can it Be?
Smartphones are now one of the most important consumer electronics devices globally. Smartphone volume shipments are growing at a very healthy rate and are expected to exceed a billion units per annum…
ARM Cortex-A57 Test Chip on TSMC 16nm FinFET Process Optimizes Tools & Flows
Taking a major step forward for advanced-node semiconductor design, ARM and Cadence recently (April 4, 2013) announced the first implementation of an ARM® CortexTM-A57 processor on the TSMC 16nm FinFET…
The Server in Your Hand - and the three new interfaces inside it
Do you love your smartphone? Is your tablet the best computer you've ever owned? If you're like me, and nearly a billion other folks on the plant, the answer is a passionate YES! The evidence is everywhere…
ARM Cortex-A50 Processor Series Wins 'Product of the Year' Award
More than 3400 product announcements. 700 applications. Less than 20 winners selected for 2012.It was a great honor for the ARM® Cortex™-A57 and A53 processors based on the ARMv8 architecture to receive…
ARMv8 Architecture, The whys & wherefores of AArch64 - 64-bit Applications
It’s been a year since ARM announced the first details of the new ARMv8 architecture with its support for 64-bit virtual addressing. This comparatively early announcement allowed the architecture…
ARM Cortex-A57 — So Big is Relative but How Relative is Your Big?
Big gives the impression of being large as in size, height, width, or amount: a big house; a big quantity. We've heard of big brother, big bang, or the notorious wrapper B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls (after…
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…
BCD - The Most Interesting Process Technology You Haven't Heard Of
Working at Arm, I often have a unique and early vantage point to trends that are shaping the semiconductor market. One of the most interesting emerging trends is Bipolar CMOS DMOS (BCD) process technology…
ARM Cortex-A53 — Who You callin' LITTLE?
I may only weigh in at just over half a square millimeter on die, but I can handle a heavy workload and I pack quite a processing punch, and frankly I'm tired of the lack of respect I get as a "LITTLE…
big.LITTLE in 64-bit
With the ARM Cortex-A50 series processors, ARM has introduced a "big" and "LITTLE" processor pair that is 64-bit capable. What does this mean for big.LITTLE software?
What is AMBA 5 CHI and how does it help?
At last the time has finally come when I can talk about AMBA 5 - the next generation of Arm interface standard. So, what's new?
Ten Things to Know About big.LITTLE
As the adoption of Arm big.LITTLE processing spreads there are a number of common questions which have been raised. I'd like to use this blog to answer some of the more common queries.
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…
Configure AMBA Fast With Early Power, Performance & Area Tools
Back in April, I wrote about how Atrenta - an ARM Connected Community Partner - was helping to tame the SoC design problem with early power, performance and area or ePPA technology. ePPA holds great promise…
ARM and Mentor Partnership Improves SoC Test
During the ARM® -Mentor® seminar Tuesday, July 17, the nearly 100 attendees heard about the goals and ambitions of the long-term partnership between Mentor and ARM to improve testing of ARM cores…
The Chinese Semiconductor Market: Rapidly Accelerating
At just under 14 minutes, with a top speed of 300km/hour, my commute to an airport on public rail transportation has never been faster! I wasn't on the high-speed public rail systems that typically come…
Time Flies When You're Having Fun - big.LITTLE Technology Coming of Age
It's often said that as one gets older, time appears to pass faster and faster. As proof of that it seems only yesterday that I had a full head of hair and ARM launched big.LITTLE. In fact it's been…
