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.…
Classic Kickstarter teardown; the Pebble watch
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.
How to find the right development board for your Kickstarter (or any design)
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…
The ARMv8-A architecture and its ongoing development
To allow the ARM ecosystem to manage the next stage of its evolution, ARM is introducing a set of small scale enhancements known as ARMv8.1-A.
What is AMBA?
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…
Collecting Trace from Fixed Virtual Platforms in DS-5
Chinese Version 中文版: 使用DS-5从FVP中收集Trace数据One of the new features for ARM DS-5 Development Studio in v5.20 is instruction trace for our Fixed Virtual Platform (FVP) simulation models. This enables you to…
The ART of Fuzz Testing
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…
CUDA Debugger and Profiler - Advanced Debugging and Performance Optimization Tools for CUDA and OpenACC
Arm Forge is a development tool suite for developing, debugging and optimizing CUDA and OpenACC codes - from GeForce to Tesla and the Kepler K80.
When Parallelism Gets Tricky: Accelerating Floyd-Steinberg on the Mali GPU
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…